Stats87 said:
Darc Requiem said:
Stats87 said:
Darc Requiem said:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Did you read Kowenicki's post, 360 sales have been on the rise for the past two months. I stand by my original statement. What does ToV have to do with anything when the game isn't even out yet. If ToV was out and the sales were increasing because of it, I'd agree with Montana's assessment but that isn't the case.
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So you're discounting the possibility that people will buy a system with a game they want on the horizon? It is entirely in the realm of possibility that people really want ToV (and even IU) and are buying 360's now to play something like LO or BD first.
Example. I had a friend who wanted GTAIV and was going to buy a PS3 for it. However, he really wanted to play Uncharted, Heavenly Sword and R&C as well. So he bought a PS3 in Mid - March to play those other games before GTAIV came out. Yes he is only one person, but I'm sure there are quite a few of those type of thinkers out there.
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Sure that may account for the sales being up for for the past week maybe two, but it has been two months of increasing 360 sales. That is setting aside the fact that you are shifting your argument. You said "because the game releases next week", my remarks were that sales have been up for a while and Kowenicki actually looked into in detail and saw that it had been for two months.
