In his home country, the Xbox 360 pushed the PS3 down

More Xbox 360s have sold out in Japan last month than PlayStation 3s reported, The Washington Post reported.

In four weeks to the 28th of September, 53547 Xbox 360s had found owners in the land of the rising sun; in comparison, only 3 pieces of the PlayStation 33071 competing on the "home track" were brought to the box office. Of course, the Nintendo Wii is selling the best in Japan as well, with a total of 109548 units being lifted off store shelves from the "swinging" console. The success of the Xbox 360 is primarily due to the September 11 price cut, with the Arcade package now available for 19800 yen and the Elite for 39800 yen, while the Nintendo Wii has 25000 yen and the 40GB PlayStation 3 39980 yen. against it can be appropriated by the Japanese.

Regarding the sales data of the consoles, it is worth mentioning not only the desktop gaming machines, but also the handheld ones: 234477 from the Nintendo DS and 109274 from the Sony PSP. The battle for portable consoles will become even more exciting in the coming weeks as the Sony PSP-3000 on October 16, a Nintendo DSi and will be unveiled in Japan on November 1st.