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Japanese Hardware Sales

GameGossip.com posted the latest hardware sales in Japan for the week ending March 20, 2005. Seems like PSP is doing a lot better in the Far East than the lukewarm reception it has had thus far in the States. Playstation 2 continues to chug along, Gamecube is sucking wind at almost 10% rate of the PS2, and Xbox is plain old dead.

Fascinating stuff as in the States, Xbox has reall taken the lead in terms of mindshare and sales. As it is the always the case in gaming, it's all about the software. Xbox has great software like Splinter Cell (the best versions) and Halo 2, that appeals more to the older Gen-X American crowd.

-PlayStation Portable: 43,644 (Annual: 580,120)
-PlayStation 2: 40,270 (Annual: 602,316)
-Nintendo DS: 22,446 (Annual: 429,545)
-Game Boy Advance SP: 11,013 (Annual: 197,776)
-GameCube: 3,357 (Annual: 70,016)
-Game Boy Advance: 477 (Annual: 6,253)
-Xbox: 345 (Annual: 4,606)