Japanese market

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kowenicki said:

hunter_alien said:
First of all no matter how se spin it MS is doing terrible. There is no way that anyone would be OK with those numbers except if we are talking about the Gizmondo. Sony could easily do over 10 million with the PS3 but at this point the PSP is their main Japanese weapon and in worst case it will reazch 16 million. Combine that with 10 million PS3 sales and they are still in a great position. Nintendo saw a hige boom so its great for them but it wont be able to get a PS2 to GC difference so it will not have a similar dominative position as the PS2...

 

You are in denial.... the wii is tracking exactly on the PS2 line and the PS3 is tracking exactly on the GC line.. the japanese have made their decision already in my opinion and according to the facts so far. You are speculating based on loyalty.

oh... and MS probably tripling (at least) their install base in japan isnt terrible at all.

 

The market is not only hardware. Worse, the market is more about software than hardware.

At least, software shows the big picture, even if hardware can help.

And software shows that PSP is irrelevant in Japan, compared to the DS, despite PSP having potential with its hardware sales.

And I doubt XB360 can reach 1.5 M. I even doubt it can reach 1M. That is, in the same span of time as the XBox, which was 4 years IIRC. In 4 years on the market, I doubt the XB360 will even double what XBox did. If it lasts longer, it can reach 1M of course, but 1.5M, I doubt that. Also, given that XB360 reached its current state by having huge losses, I don't think that's a sustainable business model. PS3 can't blame anyone, as they don't cater to the japanese market at all with 1st party games.

 

Software also shows that the HD consoles are irrelevant too in Japan BTW. That is, if you think the GC was irrelevant (it saw huge spikes of software sales with its blockbusters too), both HD consoles are irrelevant too this gen.