360 big in Japan, but new PS3 could usurp lead

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Darc Requiem said:

DMeisterJ said:

naznatips said:
Both the PS3 and 360 are nothing short of disasters in Japan. Microsoft has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to increase their lifetime sales maybe 500K units in the country. They will never see a return on that investment.

The PS3 is getting violated by the Wii in Japanese 3rd party development past the first year on the market. Look at all the Wii games announced and shown at TGS from 3rd parties this year... then look at the PS3. There hasn't even been a new FFXIII trailer. We had a Castlevania announcement without even a release year and that's it. Not to mention it's underselling the PSP in the country...

The HD consoles are incredible disasters in Japan.

But one is more of a disaster (360) than the other (PS3)!  ^_^

lol.

 

After the same amount of time on the market the PS2 had sold 7 million units in Japan while the PS2 sits at third of that amount. Both consoles are disasters but the 360 was expected to be one from the beginning the PS3 was expected to dominate. The 360 has increased its Japanese market share over it predecessor. The PS3 is on a pace for Gamecube likes sales in Japan. Tell me how the 360 is a bigger disaster in Japan than the PS3 again?

100% true.  Disaster in this context has to be measured by sales v expectations and not by sales of console v sales of rival console.  Before the start of this gen all the analyst and 3rd party developers/publishers bet on PS3 being a run away success this gen with 360 picking up the scraps and Wii being tossed in the gutter (worldwide).  No one ever expected PS3 to struggle the way it has in Japan and 360 is actually doing better than expected.  So without a doubt PS3 has been a far bigger disaster than 360 in Japan.