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Forums - Sales Discussion - What are you talking about, Sony's doing great in Japan

ranzchic on 10 March 2007

In those same 7 weeks, the charts never had Nintendo below 20 in the top 30. The PS3 only had two weeks where something was actually in the top 10, the Wii has had at least two every freaking week. This was PS2 country just a year ago.



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Erik Aston on 10 March 2007

PS2 2,120,250 Wii 1,967,250 Whoa. A system with 8% the userbase is selling 90% of the software as PS2. Japan adopts and discards systems rather quickly, eh?



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diamuerto on 10 March 2007

That looks to be the trend in Japan. They choose one system over another and then they run away with it. They have done it with the ps2 vs. xbox and gc and with ds vs. psp.



roadkillers on 11 March 2007

I've realised whatever console Square supported took the victory. 1st: NES won 2nd: SNES won against Genisis 3rd: PS won against Dreamcast and N64 4th: PS2 won again 360 and gamecube 5th: Im guessing PS3 because of Square-Enix Handheld: DS won (its not official but its gunna happen) against PSP Square supported all of the consoles that took the gold in Japan and even in America and Europe but mostly Japan.



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diamuerto on 11 March 2007

Seems right. Square is big on RPGs and it's no secret Japan can't get enough of those. I do think that the battle of Wii vs. ps3 in Japan is up in the air though. DS is getting a bevy Square games soon.



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kber81 on 11 March 2007

Indeed. Square did not support PSP till now, so I think upcomings titles like - FFT, FF:CC, FFI, FFII will boost sale a bit. Especially FF:CC - this is really new quality in the world of handheld's jRPG. Tactics will launch in May. Remakes of FFI and FFII in April. Soon we will know.



ranzchic on 11 March 2007

kber81 said: Indeed. Square did not support PSP till now, so I think upcomings titles like - FFT, FF:CC, FFI, FFII will boost sale a bit. Especially FF:CC - this is really new quality in the world of handheld's jRPG. Tactics will launch in May. Remakes of FFI and FFII in April. Soon we will know.
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ranzchic on 11 March 2007

roadkillers said: I've realised whatever console Square supported took the victory. 1st: NES won 2nd: SNES won against Genisis 3rd: PS won against Dreamcast and N64 4th: PS2 won again 360 and gamecube 5th: Im guessing PS3 because of Square-Enix Handheld: DS won (its not official but its gunna happen) against PSP Square supported all of the consoles that took the gold in Japan and even in America and Europe but mostly Japan.
So you're saying FFXIII will move to the Wii, then?



vanguardian1 on 11 March 2007

kber81 said: Indeed. Square did not support PSP till now, so I think upcomings titles like - FFT, FF:CC, FFI, FFII will boost sale a bit. Especially FF:CC - this is really new quality in the world of handheld's jRPG. Tactics will launch in May. Remakes of FFI and FFII in April. Soon we will know.
The PSP gets Final Fantasy 7 : Crisis Core, and ports of Final Fantasy 1, 2, and Tactics, and I believe there was a Mana game for it as well, but I don't recall if it made it over to North America or not... The DS gets Dragon Quest IX, Final Fantasy XII : Revenant Wings (sequel), Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 (system seller for me!), a DS Final Fantasy : Crystal Chronicles game, plus let's not forget the backwards compatibility of GBA, so Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (my main save has 187 hours clocked, all 300 missions complete), Kingdom Hearts : Chains of Memories, and the ports of Final Fantasy 4, 5, and 6, as well as Sword of Mana. That's all I can recall at the moment.



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Death2009 on 11 March 2007

ranzchic said: roadkillers said: I've realised whatever console Square supported took the victory. 1st: NES won 2nd: SNES won against Genisis 3rd: PS won against Dreamcast and N64 4th: PS2 won again 360 and gamecube 5th: Im guessing PS3 because of Square-Enix Handheld: DS won (its not official but its gunna happen) against PSP Square supported all of the consoles that took the gold in Japan and even in America and Europe but mostly Japan. So you're saying FFXIII will move to the Wii, then?
The wii hasn't won yet.