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Seece on 07 December 2011
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Reasonable said:
KillerMan said:
pezus said:
Damn it, why does Wii get a much bigger holiday boost than PS3 all the time. Disappointing Zelda numbers, 300-400k LT in Japan? I see it doing 3-4m WW, not much more than that honestly.


Because it actually has content for the main buying demographic during chirstmas sales. Parents buying games for their children. Especially in Japan Sony's efforts to capture casual market has been beyond horrible. I still can't comprehend why SCEJ has not released Singstar game in Japan...You know the country that absolutely loves karaoke?

TBH this gen Sony have got so hung up fighting MS for mature audience they've made a mess of it globally in terms of appealing to families and more casual buyers.  One of the reasons they have struggled and Wii did so well vs gamecube despite previous market penetration.

In US this year they finally had some decent bundles with R&C and LBP2 and the like (which seem to have sold very well comparatively) but overall I think they've not performed well in this area and their holiday boosts and laklusture success in a demographic the PS2 hoovered up seem to confirm this.

R&C and LBP2 are not casual friendly, and we have no idea who they sold to so you can't say they were successful in selling to casuals. I saw an article about Sony starting to focus on casuals but tbh, they have a major struggle. It took something as big as Kinect for the 360 to appeal to casuals. Unless Sony have something of that calibur coming out, then they're not going to get very far.