| SlorgNet said: Well, 16K in sales is not exactly a raving success. The 360 has had other spikes like this, I think Blue Dragon pushed sales up much more, but the console has never developed any traction. |
Actually, sales of the 360 this year has been substantially higher week to week than last year on the strength of Blue Dragon. That's why I think there's some hope to news like this. With the Xbox, it came out of the gate relatively strong, and did sub-par for the first year and slid downhill from there, I think barely eeking out a 470,000 unit sale (with a launch of around 210,000 systems). Software sales went from bad to abysmal as time went by. The 360 has seen an opposite model. It's launch was catastrophically bad, at around a 70,000 launch week, and sales were absolutely terrible since. Software sold like crap that first year too. But after BD came out, sales rose substantially, and since then sales have stayed higher, and software seems to be charting more often now at higher numbers than with the Xbox. Right now, the two systems have sold about the same LTD in Japan.
Now, this isn't to say the 360 is doing GOOD in Japan. It's not. It's doing terrible. But it's still doing better than it's predecessor did, and it's doing better than it did itself in year 1. Instead of declining year over year like the Xbox, it's actually increasing, and that could mean that weekly sales might rise again next year. If someone told me the 360 had a realistic chance at 1 million sold in Japan two years ago, I would've laughed.
Anyway, that was a winded analysis. My point is, the 360 market is growing year over year in terms of both hardware sold and software sold. It's providing a small but relatively alive market.
