Japan Sales Up

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Darc Requiem said:

MontanaHatchet said:

360 should die down to the 3k range once Tales of Vesperia is done with (launch week plus couple weeks afterwords). And to be fair to the PS3, MGS4 launched one and a half months ago (by VGC standards). The fact that it remains over 10k is still impressive given the market in Japan.

PSP sales are impressive, DS is staying strong, and the Wii being steady as usual. Many of the best selling consoles in Japan have had steady sales even when the other consoles were seeing erratic boosts or drops.

 

Montana what does Tales of Vesperia have to do with anything. The game isn't even out yet. 360 sales have been on the uptick for quite some time. They are still pitiful in the overall view but better than before. As for 10k for the PS3 being impressive, how so? The 360, a console expected to bomb in Japan, is doing half that amount and the PS3 is the successor to the consoles that dominated the prior two generations in Japan. As bad as the 360 is doing it is doing better than its predecessor, there is no quantifiable measure in which the PS3 sales in Japan are impressive.

 

Because it releases next week and some people probably want to buy it now, rather then during the rush when the game releases?

As for his PS3 comment, he says "given the market in Japan", which therefore causes his prior statement to make sense.