Comparing 12 months of the PS3 vrs PS2 (& PSP) (in Japan)

[RPGuy96]

hunter_alien said:

Parokki said:
By now I'm fairly certain that the PS3 will never come even close to 10 million units sold in Japan. The market there has a long history of choosing one console over the rest, and they've clearly made their choice already.

5 million is probably happening, but even 7 would be pretty unlikely.

Wow , your really not confidetn that games like GT5 , MGS4 and FFXIII can make a difference . Dont get me wrong , but seeing how Wii sales are going , Im not shure that it wasaccepted as the main console in Japan yet ... so I still have faith that sooner or later Japanese people will want real next-gen graphics , and I dont think the 360 will be a solution ...

 Why do people always say [short list of games] will save [console X]?  It makes no sense.  Super Mario 64 was the best selling game of its generation and plenty of other N64 games did incredibly well, but the N64 was still nowhere near the PSX.  The 2 Halos, Melee, and Double Dash had fantastic sales last generation, and yet the XBox and GameCube combined don't even make up half of the PS2's sales.  A platform can be nowhere near first place and have games that sell well; by the same logic, a few games that sell well will not suddenly boost the hardware into first place.