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Sony's Japanese offices are on vacation for Japan's continuing Golden Week holiday period, but Kaz and crew must be celebrating the latest sales stats from Enterbrain. According to the Famitsu publisher, PS3 sold 109,000 units for the month of April (covering March 30 through April 26). This is a 288% increase over last April.
The big reason for the jump is likely the Final Fantasy XIII demo, which gave the system over 60,000 units sold at its release midway through the month. Things quickly fell back to a more regular 20,000 ballpark, but the system has continued to beat the struggling Wii.
PS3's success came despite a falling Japanese market. The April 2009 period saw a drop in overall sales of 65.5% from the year before. Last year's April sales period included such major releases as Mario Kart Wii (4/10/2008) and Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (3/27/2008), both of which went on to be million sellers.
This year, the big releases for the month were Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of the Sky (Pokemon, DS) at 198,000 units, Monster Hunter G (Capcom, Wii) at 142,000 units, and Sengoku Basara Battle Heroes (Capcom, PSP) at 130,000 units. The FFXIII demo was part of the Advent Children Complete Blu-ray, and is thus not included in Enterbrain's sales stats.
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it might not be 7, but I knew a FF game would triple the PS3 sales.
The big reason for the jump is likely the Final Fantasy XIII demo, which gave the system over 60,000 units sold at its release midway through the month. Things quickly fell back to a more regular 20,000 ballpark, but the system has continued to beat the struggling Wii.
PS3's success came despite a falling Japanese market. The April 2009 period saw a drop in overall sales of 65.5% from the year before. Last year's April sales period included such major releases as Mario Kart Wii (4/10/2008) and Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (3/27/2008), both of which went on to be million sellers.
This year, the big releases for the month were Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of the Sky (Pokemon, DS) at 198,000 units, Monster Hunter G (Capcom, Wii) at 142,000 units, and Sengoku Basara Battle Heroes (Capcom, PSP) at 130,000 units. The FFXIII demo was part of the Advent Children Complete Blu-ray, and is thus not included in Enterbrain's sales stats.
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it might not be 7, but I knew a FF game would triple the PS3 sales.
