| DMeisterJ said: Does everyone remember the thread like this made a few months ago, about how the 'PSP is dead in Japan', and now the PSP is outselling all other platforms with no new releases? I think we're calling this just a little too early. It'll be two years since PS3's launch this fall, and they are probably priming a Slimline PS3, as the Slimline PSP came out 2.5 yrs after launch. And we all know what that did in Japan. I'll reserve my judgment on the "death of ps3 in Japan", at least for a year or two. |
Which PSP are you talking about? The one that just got one of its biggest games of the year, MHP2G? And until we see the next 4 weeks or so, we can't know where it will stabilize at? And it's a good 13 million behind the DS in Japan, it'll never catch it.
Not saying that the PS3 won't get some renewal when FF13 comes around, but will it be enough to help? When the Wii is nearing 9 million at the end of the year, and the PS3 is only at 3.5 million, how much can FF13 really help? And then after that, what? You'll run out of options as many smaller Japanese devs move their games to the Wii, which will cause the PS3 to only have Japanese games from bigger developers, and even some of them are moving franchises over (Monster Hunter 3). Without these games, price won't help.
