MS Says Xbox 360 Sales Were "Not Low" In Japan

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GamechaserBE said:

freedquaker said:

GamechaserBE said:
The sales of the X360 in Japan are pretty sad but the PS3 sales are also not party worthy, I expect that PS4 will do even worse next generation and same for Xone.

Makes me all sad because I enjoyed some of the JRPG's on consoles but I guess those times will not come back.

PS4 will definitely do much better than PS3 in Japan because

 

- Cheaper

- No serious competition from Nintendo

- More Japanese developer support (who focus more on Sony, than Ninty)

- Easier to develop for, and to port games from PC

- Smaller (which is a factor in Japanese market)

- Not late to the market

- Better Sony Financials

etc...

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But those were not a problem (except the support),  the problem was that they came with nothing to the market. 'It plays blu ray and you can play FF on it Buy it Japan'...   Compared to the PS2-PS one generation the amount of games in Japan is mindblowing.  I don't see a change for PS4...

They don't need really something THAT different actually to sell more than PS3, which was in significant trouble. Your arguments make sense compared to PS2 maybe, and I do think that they may have a hard time catching up with the popularity of PS2 but PS3 is a much easier rival to catch up. They may not have something like bluray BUT...

a) Blu ray did not turn out to be the game changer it was suppsoed to be. Rather digital downloads are replacing it and PS4 has it all.

b) 8 years of last gen is a long time, and people are starving for the next-gen.

c) There are still many significant improvements along with PS4 such as integrated touchpad, much larger hard disc integration, heavy emphasis on multi-tasking capabilities, integration of streaming technologies such as Gaikai