Most of the younger interns here at the Japanese Hardware Sales Chart institute have had their wills systematically broken down, turning them into unfeeling, number-crunching machines. Still, we think it’s important to give them one day a year — Valentine’s Day — where they’re allowed to experience that saccharine emotion known as love.

Of course, we don’t allow them to experience it first-hand — that could lead to all kinds of scandalous behavior. No, we simply show them cutscenes from our favorite love stories in video games. You know, the standards: Zidane and Dagger from FFIX, Wander and Mono from Shadow of the Colossus, and Commander Shepard and everyone on his ship in Mass Effect — just to name a few.

Unfortunately for our interns, V-Day fell on a Sunday this year, meaning their day of love education was more like … eleven minutes of love education. Eleven minutes that came out of their lunch quarter-hour, that is. What? Japanese hardware sales statistics don’t compile themselves, you know.

- PSP: 43,163 4,712 (9.84%)
- Wii: 36,149 6,160 (14.56%)
- DSi LL: 28,080 6,783 (19.46%)
- PS3: 25,450 8,981 (26.08%)
- DSi: 19,116 5,667 (22.87%)
- DS Lite: 5,410 1,401 (20.57%)
- Xbox 360: 3,651 438 (10.71%)
- PS2: 2,047 135 (6.19%)
- PSP Go: 1,738 93 (5.65%)

[Source: Media Create]

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