Even the Japanese wont buy a PS3!

Here is an article from Gamepro.com that we "XBOTS" might like, as the Sony fans call us. Oh and I thought the Japanese would sell their own children for anything and everything Playstation.

"The PlayStation 3 suffered its worst week of sales since launch for the second week in a row. A total of 21,105 of the consoles were sold during the week, said Media Create Co. Ltd. The research company receives data from around 3,000 stores across Japan and uses that to estimate nationwide sales.

Sales of the PlayStation 3 were highest during the launch weekend, when 81,639 were sold over two days, the company estimates. The sales dropped and then peaked again at 76,992 units in the last week of 2006. But sales have dropped each week since the new year, according to Media Create.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. said last week that shipments of the PlayStation 3 in Japan reached 1 million on Jan. 16. The figure includes products in transit to retailers, in shop store rooms and on shelves waiting to be sold, in addition to units actually sold. SCEI's original target was to ship 1 million units in Japan by the end of 2006.

Media Create estimates that 20,169 PlayStation 2 consoles were sold during the same week, only slightly less than the PS3 sales.

Sales of the rival Wii console from Nintendo were 86,395 for the week to Jan 21, Media Create said. That's also down on the prior week. Xbox 360 sales also dropped, to 7,041 consoles.

Overall sales of new-generation consoles in Japan were weak during the week at 114,541 units, the company said.

Leading the overall market was Nintendo's DS Lite handheld device, which sold 127,647 units. Surging sales of the DS Lite and the Wii, along with their games software, helped Nintendo achieve a substantial increases in sales and profits in the first nine months of its financial year, it said on Thursday.

In the software chart, the game ".hack//G.U. Vol.3" for the PlayStation 2 was top-ranked, with sales of 136,790 units."