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samus aran rules on 21 October 2009
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ps3_jrpg_gamer said:
samus aran rules said:
ps3_jrpg_gamer said:
well ps3 will continue to dominate(29 october bayonetta ,tekken 6 ,the last rebellion)until december with a lot of games to support it


What exactly is PS3 dominating? It sure as hell isn´t Wii since they are both tied in hardware right now and Wii is having bigger softwaresales (so if anything Wii is dominating but I would certainly not call it that).

If one is to be nice to Sony one can say that it´s a tie right now regarding the consolerace in Japan but the one who is dominating Japan is as usual NDS with both huge sales in hardware and software. In Japan we should not look at things in terms of consoles and portables being in separate markets. Since they very clearly are competing in the same arena for custumers. NDS is this generations PS2 in Japan saleswise, that is the only proper way to look at it.

 

it is nonsence comparing DS to PS3

SINCE THEY DIFFER SO MUCH

It´s not nonsense. They compete for developers. They compete for custumers. And they compete in sales. As simple as that.

DS getting Dragon Quest IX which is the biggest thirdparty franchise in Japan and which has historically been released on the marketleading system in Japan says it all. More exactly, Dragon Quest has been released on all previous winners, NES, SNES, PS1, PS2 and.... yes DS.

Think about it this way, if consoles are the main thing in Japan and we judge videogame sales from consoles strictly then what would this generation look like in Japan compared to previous gens? Pitiful that´s what.

And why is that? It isn´t that japanese people have stopped playing videogames is it? No they have just choosed another winning system instead of PS3 and Wii and that´s DS. It´s just that many of us who mainly play videogames do it on consoles (that goes for me as well) and are just too blind to see what has happened this generation in Japan when it really is plain as daylight. Japan have choosen a winning system, a system that is competing with all other systems and that has eaten into the sales of all others. The winner is the DS.