Soriku said:
Gilgamesh said:
Soriku said:
Gilgamesh said:
I think around the end the Wii and PS3 are going to be damn close for Japan sales. Both very roughly around 15 million.
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The PS3 is going to more than double what it sold in 4 years despite less heavy hitters than what it's already got? Uh, OK...
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PS3 is selling better then it ever has and also has eliminated one of it's biggest competitions, the Wii. Week after week it's easily the best selling home console. Any big games now would make huge spikes in hardware sales unlike anything before, like price cuts, Metal Gear Solid games, Final Fantasy games, Slimmer model (oh it's coming) etc.
The PS3 may not passd the Wii but I say it'll be within 1 - 2 million away from it.
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The PS3 has had FF, MGS, Tales, RE5, Yakuza, GT5, WKC, DMC, multiple price cuts, Slim model, Torne, etc. With all that it's still only at 6.3 mil, a huge distance from 15 mil. The biggest pusher of the PS3 is probably the Slim and that came out over a year ago. There really isn't much they could do that could possibly topple what they've already done for the PS3 in the last 4 years. Game spikes won't be enough to bring it to 15 mil.
And the PS3 is outselling the Wii right now...but in a normal week it's give or take by 10k. There's a big 5 mil gap and last year, a crucial year since that's after the Slim was released, it only sold 1.55 mil. I don't think the PS3 is up YoY or anything so how is the PS3 going to make up this huge gap especially since it's not like the Wii's stopped selling. Ditto for 15 mil.
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"The biggest pusher of the PS3 is probably the Slim and that came out over a year ago."
I like to think of that event as the rebirth of the PS3. A Slimmer version came a long with a price and from that came the switch in Wii and PS3 sales. There are still several more price cuts left into the PS3 (the console is selling for $350 in Japan, there a lot more price cuts to go till it's under $200 which would be a sales explosion), and obviously there are going to be more MGS, FF, RE, Yakuza, DMC games coming this gen more big spikes, and like I said another Slimmer PS3 would kill in Japan, which IS coming.
Most of that 6.3 million sales was from it's high price, as it get's cheaper sales will continue to rise. I didn't specifically say the PS3 will do 15 million, but close, within 1 - 2 million away easy, the Wii will probably barely manage 15 million. Also whos to say in the future the PS3 won't be doing over 40K a week and the Wii under 10K? The way this gen is going that's easily possible.
