| Ajax said: you actually mean the PS3 is dead, cause the 360 figures aren't surprising or unexpected at all... and yes, the PS3 is doing plain bad in Japan... but somehow, and call it wishfull thinking, I can't believe that more Japanese won't at some point want a high-tech follow up of the PS2, the market might have really changed if we can believe the sales figures, but Japan is a high-tech country and the PS2 owner-base is so huge, so I find it hard to believe that the Japanese would stay satisfied with only the Wii and hendhelds.. |
This is all wrong. Japan being the high tech country that it is had these things years before the other regions. They are a common thing , and when something is common it doesn't appeal to you as much as a new innovative product especially in japan. So basically what I'm saying is they already have the high tech stuff, and don't see the ps3 as amazing as the US or Others do.
@ OP the 360 is dead, but the ps3 has SOME life in it. Once a console sells in japan it keeps selling, and it seems to me the wii is selling. Most ps3 games are western centered, and the japanese aren't too amazed by the ps3s new technology, because they have it already. So a redisign and some big rpgs like FF might bring it back. You also have to consider though that the Wii is most likely getting DQ which in sales DQ>FF in japan. SO that may just cancel out that. If white knight chronicles and a few others do well I see them boosting sales too. The ps3 will never take the market back though in japan. I would say the most it could get is 20% back.
