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jarrod on 04 November 2009
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Train wreck said:
atma998 said:
tedsteriscool said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Here is the current sales in japan for 2009 for Wii and PS3 VGChartz Hardware data for the period 04th Jan 2009 to 24th Oct 2009: Console Wii PS3 Japan 1,012,924 1,006,810 So in order to beat the Wii, PS3 will probably have to sell at least 750K over ten weeks

And it'll sell 500k quicker than you can blink once FF XIII hits. Slim launch and this will be comparable. And whats going to boost Wii so much? NSMB?


NSMB Wii + Taiko Wii 2, Tales of Graces, Sengoku Musou 3,  PokePark, Mario & Sonic 2 and Crystal Bearers. This is a strong line up if you ask me.

Fixed.  Famitsu gave the Crystal Bearers a 30/40.  Not going to boost systems sales.

None of the titles I listed are going to spike sales (except Mario), that wasn't the point.  The point was they added to the lineup overall, and showed possibly the first time that Wii could expect a full and varied lineup that would help push overall sales, something that's usually been reserved only for machines like PS2 or DS.

 

Ail said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:
Carl2291 said:
Train wreck said:
I just call it Wii damage control. Whether or not the PS3 wins Japan (even though it will), the Wii still loses.

I'm just waiting for the excuses to be used to justify why the Wii struggled in 2009.

Waiting for the excuses? There's more than enough of them in this thread


We already know why the Wii struggled in 2009, even Iwata admitted why, so why does anyone need to give an excuse? The facts are already out there. The point of this topic was whether PS3 can outsell the Wii in 2009, in Japan, not why Wii struggled.

2009 is actually probably one  of the best year for 3rd party releases in Japan on the Wii....

 

Monster Hunter Tri, Monster Hunter G, the new Samurai warrior game soon, Tales of Grace..

Aside from DQX, third party ain't gonna get much better than that..

And that list is actually much better than 2007 or 2008...

By the same token, 2009 was far and away the best year for PS3 3rd party wise as well.  RE5, SF4, Yakuza 3, Tekken 6, Tales of Vesperia, Musou Orochi Z, PES 2010, Gundam UC0081, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, Bayonetta, FFXIII, etc, etc.  Plus a huge pricedrop and complete platform remodeling (from the shell to the brand to the font even), resulting is what's essentially a platform relaunch.  And with all that, it might even not beat out Wii's weakest year yet, the year where even Nintendo's president is talking publicly about how they failed in the region.  Not quite as impressive when put in context.

I'd also argue, 3rd party wise, it only looks downhill for PS3 from FFXIII.  At least Wii still has the promise of DQX, PS3's blew it's load in 2009, and it's not gonna get any better than that...  

 

ZorroX said:
GT5P sold around 4 mln. with PSN.

Every main GT game sells 10 mln.+ copies. This means, that there are 6 mln.+ people, which are yet to buy main GT game.

GT5P was bundled mercilessly and was the first Prologue to even get worldwide release.  

GT5 isn't hitting 10m.  In fact, I doubt any PS3 ever game hits that benchmark (only a handful of PS1/PS2 titles did), due to a weakened userbase and most big titles being on 360 as well.