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vizunary on 02 July 2007
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davygee said:
Bodhesatva said:

Or maybe the Japanese simply don't care very much about the console. Honestly, the PS3 is out of spare lives in Japan: it's lowered its price (Which was already lower than the US price), Japan has a solid HDTV adoption rate (Japan has the highest in the world), it's had major Japan-centric title released (Gundam Musou and now Folk Soul), and it faces much weaker competition from the 360 in Japan than it does in the US/Europe (where both the 360 AND the Wii are beating it), and yet the system just can't gain any traction.

At some point you have to stop looking for excuses and simply say that the system isn't doing well in Japan. The launch gate has closed, all of the maneuvering has been tried, but the PS3 just keeps falling farther and farther behind.


You can't just disregard the price of the system as being it's problem....of course it's a huge problem of the PS3.

The PS3 although cheap in Japan at around $400 is still double the cost of the Wii which is around $200.

The price isn't an excuse...it's primarily the reason IMHO.  And this is why Nintendo are running away with all the gold.  The PS3 isn't just expensive...it's ridiculously expensive in all 3 markets.  Although if a PS3 was priced around $400 in the UK...they WOULD be sold out, seeing as that makes in come in at not much over £200...it is currently double this in the UK. 


I've got to say that Sony is a dumbshit on this one... They've should've dropped the price to $406 in the U S A (or the enitire western market for that matter) and not Japan. I think they would've seen some real nice sales figures here in the 2nd quarter, they did have some decent games out with a fairly wide range of appeal. I would've been pissed that only two months before mine cost $600, but I would get over that pretty quick, I knew what I was paying for(being an early adopter with no games to play =)

Also, wasn't there 300k pre orders of Hot Shots Golf 5 in Japan??? That's not bad for preorders.