| etuoyo said: It's quite impressive that PS3 has achieved this three weeks in a row. No one would have expected this at all so soon after Galaxy was released. But considering the million and one price drops, a new color model (and the way PSP sales shot up when lite was released it shows how much Japanese love new models) it is not all that impressive. I think there is still alot of work for PS3 to do bearing in mind Wii has the new colors to come and price drops. Still looks like PS3 is in for a rough ride in Japan, but at least it looks like it still has a chance to come out on top there which is much much more than can be said about the US & to a lesser extent Europe. |
Yes it's definetly showing a brighter light at the end of the tunnel, than the previous total darkness as it was 2 months ago. But still a long way to go for PS3. As even if it sold at 50k persistently in non holiday weeks for the rest of 2008, it'd still need Wii sales to be below 10k for it to come close to catching up. And with Wii Fit, SSBB, and Mario Kart all coming out later this year or sometime in 2008, it'll be hard to get Wii sales at that low, not to mention outsell it. Right now this 2007 holiday in Japan should be an interesting one. PS3 has got its last big game out for the year with Winning Eleven 2008. Wii still has Wii Fit. So going to be interesting to see who gets the most in holidays and carries it on in 2008. Either Wii will regain itself and have a big 2008 and leave PS3 in the dust, or they'll start to get more around the same sales, or PS3 and Wii will match. Who knows. Right now with the Japanese market, I'm up for anything as its been full of surprises.
