Wii continues Japanese dominance

Although the Wii is topping US hardware sales charts on a regular basis, its hold on the region is not as dominant as in Japan. Reuters reported today that magazine publisher Enterbrain's latest sales figures show that the Wii has outsold the PlayStation 3 in a ratio of 4-to-1 over the last six months.

From April to September, Nintendo sold about 1.6 million Wii systems in Japan, whereas Sony's PS3 managed to sell a little more than 385,000. Reuters did not cover sales figures for the Xbox 360, but in April the system's Japanese sales were dramatically outstripped by the competition, roughly 5-to-1 by the PS3 and nearly 25-to-1 by the Wii.

When both systems were released in Japan last year, the Wii outsold the PS3 2-to-1. The sales figures didn't stay that close for long, though. The Wii had opened up a 4-to-1 sales gap by the end of January.