Japan: Weekly PS3 Sales Drop To 57,000

Edge-Online writes: Japanese PS3 sales fell by over 90,000 units during the console’s second week of availability, according to data from Famitsu publisher Enterbrain.

Following the September 3 launch of the new PS3 Slim, Sony’s console recorded its biggest weekly sales total in Japan as sales hit 150,832, with the Slim moving 150,252 units. But there was a quick drop in demand for the new console, with advance figures from Enterbrain showing PS3 sales of 57,056 units during the week ended September 13.