360sales up in japan need an explanation

[bigjon]

disolitude said:

bigjon said:
I still think it is funny that MS has bought an entire library full of Japanese type games and the 360 still has awful sales. I think looking back at this gen many people will agree that MS should have focus more on locking up their homeland, then Europe instead of firing empty round into Japan...

I still think its funny that Sony is making all these FPS games to cater to the American market yet they still have awful sales in Japan and not much better sales than 360 in NA. Shouldnt they be making more effort to capture the japanese market?

 

 

hmm this does not seem like the same situation at all...

360 in Japan 630,000 over about 3 years... (or going on 3 year)

PS3 in NA 5,490,000 over about 2 years...

These blank fires MS is making into Japan have been selling like 200k TOPS.

Some of the PS3 FPS games have done quite well, Resistance, Call of Duty to name 2. Also it is not like Sony has been buying a ton of exclusive rights to FPS games. The only ones I can think of that are exclusive are the 1st Party ones. I am not sure if Killzone 2 is 1st party or not...

In fact MGS4 is the only major 3rd party exclusive that Sony seems to have kept on the PS3. And MGS has always been a Playstation Franchise.