Reasonable said:
That percentage is a little misleading. As noted in the OP it is so large because the 360 numbers were so small. I think it's very interesting that both the HD consoles are showing growth - but it's the PS3 growth that seems more sustainable to me. 360 has grown from nothing to weak numbers, which is an achievement in itself, but required enormous effort in terms of exclusive titles for what in the big scheme of things is a small jump in true numerical units. I really doubt it can continue to see incremental jumps (which is what it needs) as the weekly sales are already below 10K a week despite the large number or JRGPs on the platform. PS3 on the other hand, due to local preferences, is seeing a much bigger jump with each exclusive title and clearly gets the biggest jump from popular titles like RE5. Still, looks like Japan is going HD from those YoY - and MS is definately gone from dead in the water to toehold.
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But the PS3's YOY % isn't sustainable, it got a big boost due to FF demo, in a couple of weeks it will be back down to making a YOY loss whilst the 360 will still be up YOY.
