| TheSource said: Next week should be up a little bit for PS3 but those of you expecting a huge bump from MHP3 HD are going to be dissapointed its only got about 90,000 preorders and week one: final preorders is typically a 3:2 or 5:3 ratio for this type of game. The game had over 1m preorders on PSP and over 300k preorders on Wii - so the lift will be an order of magnitude smaller than the 70k Wii lift and 200k PSP lift. I also agree with the frontloaded argument in Japan for price cuts - PS3 probably would have done 25k for the 8/27 week in Japan without Monster Hunter. With Monster Hunter, you're looking at 35k - 45k realistically, and then a drop off to fairly 'normal' PS3 numbers prior to Xillia in September. PS3 sold 1.25m in Japan from August 29 2009 to January 2 2010 - hard to see it getting particularly close to that level in 2011, with no Slim, Final Fantasy being a sequel and not the first entry, and a lesser price drop and lower baseline level of sales likely heading into late November |
What do you expect from Xillia in terms of hardware boost? Is the PS3 Xillia bundle hot? I know Sony announced that the Xillia bundle would also benefit from the price cut so I'd think a lot of people are waiting for it to buy a PS3.
