Japanese HW Sales for Week Ending July 20, 2008

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jkimball said:

badgenome said:

Diomedes1976 said:
Good ,that inmense amount of money they have put in the table for FFXIII have managed them 1-1.5K more sales ....lets see if for a week or a bit more.

So much for the DS beating the PSP this week....a big difference of sales.

Do you really think they paid for it? Wouldn't it be incredibly stupid to pay for a game that won't even see release on their system in the region in which it would help them most?

Of course they paid for it. They had to. They paid for GTA, they Paid for FFXIII, they paid for Fallout, they'll pay for Tekken, etc etc.  Why would Square do it for free, when obivously MSFT is willing to pay? Square isn't stupid, they see the 50M that Rockstar got and want their piece as well.  MSFT does not have to make rational business decisions- they essentitally have unlimted  funds. Square knows this. Everyone knows this. MSFT will be paying for a long, long time.  Even if a developer was going to do multiplat, announce as PS3 exclusive and then approach MSFT about a little help to go multiplat...

 

 

 

WoW thats interesting... could you even tell me what is bad about it?

First of all, I am a gamer. As a gamer, I want to have good games. Microsoft is satisfying their customers. The customer will not care how a good game made its way on a console. He will buy and enjoy it, thats all.

 Besides that, it is a win / win situation for square and ms. The only loser is Sony. Not Sonys customers, they won't care either, how this game made its way. They will buy and enjoy it aswell. This is no trolling, that is just the business.

Back to sales:

Nintendo is dominating the entire market. Worldwide the wii and the DS combined sold more than PSP, PS3 and Xbox360 together. That is just impressive. They sell nearly 850.000 consoles of the DS and wii in one week. Thats just insane.

Do you really think a modified DS would increase its sales significantly? Nintendo sells like 5 million units this year in japan. would this number increase to 10 million? There is no need to modify the ds for europe or the us. It is just a cash cow that should be milked in my eyes.