PS3 Beating Up Japan

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Jin_Shihouin said:

ClaudeLv250 said:

Jin_Shihouin said:

The Japan preview is way off again.

It didn't even mention torne.
It also underestimated Yakuza 4 (a bit).

I sense some Nintendo bias in the Japan preview.

I like the clear and concise, perfectly logical deductions you've made here. Instead of approaching the preview under the mindset that it is an early preview with estimates, you've instead concluded that any numbers that are off are that way because the staff is clearly biased for Nintendo. Your evidence is undeniable and your claims are humble. What would we do without more outlooks like this on the site?

U are 100% right in what u are saying.

I know the preview only samples one retailer and that I can't really expect accurate numbers.

And I wouldn't want to make Nintendo bias responsible for numbers that are off even though it sounds like that.

It would be stupid. I wasn't being fully serious with that last line, more like just teasing.

 

However, the tone of the preview seems to favor Nintendo a bit (even though that doesn't influence what numbers the estimates will end up having).

And I wonder how the preview hasn't even considered something like torne + Yakuza 4 to have a bigger effect on hardware which it clearly had.

The preview expected hw to be in the same range as the week before which wasn't a very good estimation.

 

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ASCII Media reported that 62k units of torne were sold in the first week.

Sega shipped more than 500k units of Yakuza 4.

 

 

 

 

I can understand your reaction and all the more so, because if I remember correctly the Source actually stated in the comments that Yakuza 3 didn't push more than 27K consoles and there was no reason whatsoever for Yakuza 4 to push more hardware, completely obliterating the fact that back in February 2009 the PS3 price was still at 39'990Y (way too high for a gaming machine by japanese standards) and that the PS3 "slim" was still only a vague rumor.