Japan Sales Up

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MANUELF said:

DS: 60k

Wii: 42k

PSP: 71k

Xbox360: 5.5k

PS3: 11.6k

 

DISCUSS!!

DS - considering the install base, 60k/week is pretty much excellent. Sales will be good over Xmas, and if Ninty want to bring in a PRICE CUT in Japan - sales will boost significantly again.

Wii - holding steady, excellent figures considering general "lack" of hit software for last few months. WiiFit & MK doing well for hardware.

PSP - excellent sales, be interesting to see where it ends up once Sony stops releasing new colours (etc). It is leading the market, but at the same time - its only 10k (15%) over DS sales at the moment.

360 - definitely on the rise, has been since E3 (?). If MS can string together a few big releases, they could significantly bump 360 sales long-term in Japan. As someone mentioned, already beaten total XBOX sales in the region by 30% or so.

PS3 - holding pretty steady, but probably the only hardware in Japan on some form of downward curve at the moment. Should steady around 10k, but will be interesting to see what happens if there are NO big releases for a few weeks.

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Next few weeks will be big again, interesting to see how DS v PSP does, and 360 vrs PS3 does.

For the record: PSP + DS + Wii currently has 91% of the hardware market. So in a lot of ways (to retailers) the PS3 + 360 are virtually irrelevant at the moment.