NPD Gamasutra article (interesting facts on Sony)

[jarrod]

mario64 said:

jarrod said:

mario64 said:

@jarrod : yeah in Japan they're only outselling 360 between 10:1 and 30:1 every week, so they're clearly doing bad.

Wait, say what ??

If PS3 is doing bad in Japan, then 360 performance there is utterly laughable and pathetic.

You can be "outselling 360" and still doing badly.  GameCube was outselling Xbox by a similar margin, how would you describe it's Japanese performance?

Japan is easily PS3's worst market still.  Only 30k this week is awful (but at least up from the 20k they did last year).

Yeah and 3k a week by the 360 is awful-awful-awful then ? We need a new word for 360 performance. lol

Outselling its competitor more than 10:1 while being more expansive is bad now. Thanks for the laugh, now I read it all on the net I guess.

Or is it 360 best market ? Nice spin anyway.

MS should hire you. (Or Saddam Hussein for PR during the Iraqi - US war)

WTF?  Listen carefully, I said 360's JP sales were so bad that nothing else could even be compared.  The thing didn't bomb, it's cratered.  No spin, just reality... PS3 in America is lightyears better (hell, it's on par with 360 here now basically).   PS3 in Japan is still "bad" saleswise though, even Wii in Japan isn't even doing all that well and it sold nearly twice as much this week.   Frankly I'd say Japan is pretty easily the weakest market for all 3 machines, it's solidly handheld country these days and the consoles are all doing pretty unimpressively by comparison.