Majin-Tenshinhan said:
txrattlesnake said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
txrattlesnake said:
It's probably a real one and if not it probably will be in six months. It didn't sell well enough for Square to justify keeping it as a 360 exclusive especially in Japan. Ninja Gaiden II and Vesperia ar both coming to the PS3 and the PS3 has demonstrated that it can be the biggest console in Japan, so why not? |
I'm sorry, but I must've missed where the PS3 sold over 8 million units of hardware in Japan...
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Oh, I don't think it has, but it could be headed towards 7 million by some point in 2010. And, do you remeber that Janet Jackson song, "What have you done for me lately?" Well, as of late the Wii has been getting its hat handed to it in Japan by a console that costs $150.00 more.
Now granted the Wii will probably be back on top when Monster Hunter and Wii Sports Resort comes out, but how sustainable its longterm pops from those games will be in the long run is questionable at this point in time.
How much of a pop the Wii would get in Japan from a game like Arc Rise Phantasia is questionable if the PS3 has its version of Vesperia or Star Ocean 4 coming out at roughly the same time.
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How about we look at it from a more sensible point of view ... Wii hasn't had a hardware moving game out for a very long time in Japan, and it's sales are at, what, 18-19k? Last year, when the PS3 didn't have hardware moving games out for a long time, it's sales were actually below 360 for several weeks and were often below 10k.
So... Yeah. I don't really see the point, here. If those are the system's respective numbers when no massive games have just been released, then ... Well...
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That's the linear problem right there. 18 -19k? Last week, wii was at 15k and 360 at 9.5k (not much of a difference), that's it's lowest plateau thus far. And this isn't 2008 in Japan, PS3's software lineup is better now then this time last year. So far it's went down to 16k in the last 3 months. We don't know how long it will last at this level or what the plateau will be for PS3 dropping off.
PS3 2009 Japan Plateau for week to week sales with no hardware boosting games = ???
Wii 2009 Japan Plateau for week to week sales with no hardware boosting games = 15k
360 2009 Japan Plateau for week to week sales with no hardware boosting games = 7k-9.5k
