Japan's May 18th numbers.

[Venji]

VGChartz Hardware data for the period

02nd Feb 2008 to 17th May 2008:

Console	Wii	PS3	X360
America	2,408,102	1,081,905	1,026,264
Japan	968,695	237,891	38,476
UK	796,675	382,523	337,114

 

It's interesting to see how much better hardware is selling in the UK compared to Japan recently( 4 months).

• The Wii is almost selling at the same rate with only 21% more sold in Japan
• The PS3 has sold 61% more in the UK then Japan over the last 4 months
• The Xbox360 is doing far better in the UK.    (As Expected 886%)

Both the PS3 and Wii have a greater LTD in Japan but the sales of the PS3 are clearly slowing compared to the UK. This could explain why we are not seeing so many JRPG's produced on the PS3 as the UK and Europe are showing themselves to be far larger markets then Japan and so they are creating more games that cater for the European audience. 

At the present rate (this weeks) we could see more PS3 sold in the UK then Japan within a year.