Japan’s first half: PSP reigns king of hardware, Mario Kart tops software

brp style=text-align: center;img style=cursor: pointer; src=http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/123304/consoles-wii-ps3-360.jpg?070232 title=Wii - PS3 - Xbox 360 - Image 1 alt=Wii - PS3 - Xbox 360 - Image 1 align=br/pbra href=http://xbox360.qj.net/tags/enterbrain/10105 id=tag title=Famitsu publisherEnterbrain/a of a href=http://xbox360.qj.net/tags/japan/109 id=tag title=island country in East Asia; capital city TokyoJapan/a has finished tallying their results for the total hardware and software sales for the period of March 31 to September 28. This time period marks the first half of 2008’s span style=font-style: italic;fiscal/span year in Japan.brbrCue list of hardware sales!brollispan style=font-weight: bold;PSP:/span 1,583,731 unitsbr/lilispan style=font-weight: bold;DS:/span 1,314,919 units/lilispan style=font-weight: bold;Wii:/span 1,105,174 units/lilispan style=font-weight: bold;PS3:/span 352,457 units/lilispan style=font-weight: bold;360:/span 138,740 units/li/olOh yes, the PSP reigns king of the hill. Over one and a half million units in six months’ time? Man, that’s deep. And to think these are numbers from Japan alone!brbrMeanwhile, on the software side of things, it’s a different story. Nintendo dominates the charts with games for the Wii and DS, with span style=font-style: italic;Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G/span managing to grind its way to second place though.brollia href=http://wii.qj.net/r.php?/Mario-Kart-Wii/cid/292span title=Wii - Mario Kart Wii style=font-weight: bold;Mario Kart Wii/span/a - 1,744,387br/lilia href=http://pspupdates.qj.net/r.php?/Monster-Hunter-Freedom-2/cid/2132span title=PSP - MHP 2nd G style=font-weight: bold;Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G/span/a - 1,602,386br/lilispan style=font-weight: bold;a href=http://xbox360.qj.net/tags/pokemon/84 id=tag title=a multi-billion media franchise created by Satoshi TajiriPokemon/a Platinum/span - 1,481,725br/lilispan style=font-weight: bold;Dragon Quest V/span - 1,152,229br/lilispan style=font-weight: bold;Wii Fit/span - 845,238br/li/olhr style=width: 100 ; height: 2px;brspan style=font-weight: bold;Related articles:/spanbrulli style=font-style: italic;a title=NPD: Top 5 best-selling games in 2008 (so far) for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii href=http://wii.qj.net/NPD-Top-5-best-selling-games-in-2008-so-far-for-PS3-Xbox-360-Wii/pg/49/aid/124278NPD: Top 5 best-selling games in 2008 (so far) for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii/a/lilia style=font-style: italic; title=NPD, Chart Track, Enterbrain combined global report: GTA4 on top, Wii games follow href=http://www.qj.net/NPD-Chart-Track-Enterbrain-combined-global-report-GTA4-on-top-Wii-games-follow/pg/49/aid/123304NPD, Chart Track, Enterbrain combined global report: GTA4 on top, Wii games follow/abr/li/ulbrbr pa href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/qj/xbox?a=KjrLEZimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/qj/xbox?i=KjrLEZ border=0/img/a/pimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/qj/xbox/~4/408589449 height=1 width=1/ a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=’http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/qj/xbox/~3/408589449/124535 ‘Source [qj.xbox]/abr