Worldwide up! (13th August 2011)

[smbu2000]

Boutros said:

spurgeonryan said:
So 3DS dominated, Playstation was second, Wii was strong in two territories. And the Box was strong in America! DS only downfall was Japan. Big news this week! I wonder if those sales numbers for the wii and PS3 will hold?

With Tales of Xillia and Monster Hunter HD coming on the PS3 it can only go up. Tales of Xillia should be quite the system seller considering it's the first real Tales of game on the PS3 and there's a bundle. Also there's the price cut. The Wii doesn't have much new softwares coming soon so I guess it might go down from here on out.

Xillia will be a system seller in that there is a limited edition bundle available for it, but other than that I can't imagine that it would have a significant boost for the PS3. Just because you say that it's the first real Tales of game for the PS3 doesn't mean all the Tales of fans haven't moved over to the PS3 by now. It's already had Vesperia (with extra content) and Graces (with extra content). Any Tales of fan who wanted to play them on the PS3 would surely have moved over by now.

It's also a good thing that Namco is lowering the price of the Tales of Xillia PS3 console bundle by 5,000 yen in accordance with the PS3 price drop. It was initially announced to be selling for 37,980 yen, but now it will sell for 32,980 yen (according to the ToX website). Otherwise it would have looked to be way overpriced (compared to a standard 160gb PS3)