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Sales - Japan UP! - View Post

Hyruken on 18 December 2008
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KillerMan said:
Hyruken said:
colonelstubbs said:
Is the PS3 going to be stuck around the 30,000 mark forever?

 

 This time last year it was selling average of 50k (in fact over 60k for the same week last year). Think we thought it would stay that high forever back then!

On an interesting point it is quite funny reading peoples views on Japan. A few months back when 360 was in front people were saying "Japan is dead sales wise now", but because the PS3 is back ahead of it selling 100% less then this time last year it is now "Japan is turning to the PS3". You have to laugh :)

 

So? PSP and Wii are down a lot more but you only notice PS3 numbers. Heck, even DS is down with new model.

 

 Oh dont get me wrong the Wii is down loads. It sold like 170k this week last year so that is a fall of 80k year over year! That is pretty bad. BUT the Wii still outsold the PS3 and 360 combined by over 2 to 1. I dont really think we can start saying the Wii is going tits up when it has those sort of figures behind it, we would be very picky wouldnt we.

Sales for pretty much everything are down in Japan apart from the 360, but even those numbers i dont think are worth bragging about. The UK really has now killed off Japan as a gaming sales monster in my opinion. Who would of thought that?