In all honest I don't think the PS3 can really bounce back hugely in Japan, I think it will behave very much like the PSP, with big titles we'll see big jumps for short periods, but that's all I can really say... it isn't going to hit critical mass and that isn't going to change this year, or next (for JAPAN).
Nintendo is just too strong, the Japanese people love NINTENDO at the moment and while the Wii also has no new games at the moment it is still selling much stronger than PS3.
PS3 has so few titles coming out this year, I just can't tell what is going to happen with the platform there. What can they do? They can't magically make new titles start to appear... while the price COULD be dropped I doubt that is going to do much for the console now...
Plus it's too big physically for Japan.
