The Japanese Console Market

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Rath said:

fkusumot said:

SRLemmiwinks said:
I didnt know that a sports title was a new and fresh idea.
The people at EA sports must be proud of themselves, from 20 years ago.

Probably some other things you don't know.

The DS has just passed up the PS2 in LTD sales in about three years. Fishyjoe, you're only looking at one week of sales? I call cherry picking. Anyways...

Home console sales in Japan: what can each company do to sell more? Xbox360, not much. Microsoft has thrown a lot of money into the market with some results but not something that looks very successful. PS3, I think Sony is doing some very positive things now with the price drop, new model/color and dual shock controller. Nintendo looks as if it is planning on turning the Wii into a DS download station to tap into that 20 million userbase. And then there's Wii Fit

Calling Fishy on cherry picking would only be fair if the week was hugely different from those preceeding it. In fact from memory (I should probably check =) this week is larger than those for the last month or so, espeically with the larger PS3 sales.

 

Sure. I also gave the key to the comparison by pointing out the DS vs. PS2 sales. In Japan the PS2 sold about 25 million of 120 million PS2's worldwide which is about 20% of PS2 sales. Even looking at the last month isn't going to do more than possibly indicate the start of a trend.