Japan Sales up!

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MontanaHatchet said:
Has it occurred to anyone that this is a week after a holiday season (or whatever happened in Japan last week) and that usually means that hardware and software see a large drop? I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this since last week in Japan was above average and this week is below average. But I suppose a week this abysmal for the market would make someone forget the last one.

All systems did horribly. The PSP has several releases for Japan lined up for the end of the year so it wouldn't be impossible for it to pass the DS in weekly sales again. The PS3's poor sales are expected since the only two games coming out this week are Afrika and Battlefield: Bad Company (seems like a poor combination of games to appeal to the Japanese). This isn't the lowest the Wii had even been in Japan, if memory serves. It hit a pretty big slump in 2007 before Wii Fit came out, where it might have dipped below 20k (can't really remember).

The 360 boost from Tales of Vesperia is still holding strong, but I think the hardware sales are in anticipation for the release of Infinite Undiscovery in early September. Seriously, two huge RPGs in the course of a month and this is the best the 360 can do? Count me as unimpressed. Of course you could claim that it's because of a sellout, but then you'd have to ask yourself how much it would sell if there wasn't a sellout. 4k? 5k? Pretty insignificant either way.

Its a bit difficult to accurately measure sales numbers when there isn't many, if any, X360's left on the market.  Considering the speed at which the X360 sold out in Japan (literally the day after TOV was released), I would say 4K - 5K is understating the potential.  Rather it appears a 10K consistent sell through weekly average (key is average) for the month of August should have been very possible.  Followed up with Infinite Discovery, we might be seeing maybe 10K weekly average sell through for September and possibly October also.