Famitsu Sales - February 23 - March 1

[haxxiy]

senortaco said:

haxxiy said:
As a whole, this year so far on Japan have been:

Wii: ~317k this year verse ~855 last year. Ouch: that's like 63% down.
HD consoles: ~295 this year verse ~328 last year. Should start going up yoy in two weeks, for both consoles.

Should the trend keep and Wii will sell around 1.1m on Japan this year, most likely being outsold by the HD twins and even by PS3 alone, if it keeps the pace through the year and FFXIII releases this holidays.

 

I'm not so sure...cause so far the trend with big releases on the HD consoles we've only seen a modest bump. Even with FF I'm not sure it will have that large of an effect right now.

...I think that the home consoles in Japan seriously need to have more mainstream pricing. The closet there is the 360, and Microsoft has an advantage cause the Yen is doing well.

 

Well X360 is up like 150% from last year, and PS3 is down yoy so far just because of its strong january last year. It has been up yoy on Japan for a bit now I think.