hanafuda on 11 February 2007
Erik Aston said:
VF5 was one of the games that was supposed to help PS3 begin to catch up to Wii week-to-week sales. It was the first of several PS3 games coming out in Feb/March that will be looked at in the context of Wii vs. PS3.
It depends how you define the word "hit" I suppose, but 100,000 sales is a pretty mild hit in Japan. There's been well over 1,000 games to reach that mark. Maybe it would be an okay number for the developer all things considered, but in the context of "console wars", it is far from encouraging.
That isn't my definition of the word, 'hit'. It is the general rule of thumb in Japan, but like I said, there are other factors that need to be taken into account.
You mean PS3 catch up to Wii in terms of hardware sales? Let's see what the actual sales figures come to then, rather than speculate on rumour, which is what this entire thread is based on.
Wii is selling more than PS3 hardware wise, but the software tells a different story.
Wii Sports, Hajimete no Wii, and Zelda (to a lesser extent) are the big sellers, and pretty much everything else has done poorly. Even the Pokemon game has severly underperformed (200,000 maybe, but that has to be the poorest selling Pokemon game to date). Excite Truck just tanked in Japan, and pretty much all third party titles have sold really poorly.
This week it is Cooking Mama Vs VF5. Let's see what happens...
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