By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Sales - Japan Up! Week of February 20.

qmoney88 on 25 February 2010
Hyruken said:
rccsetzer said:
Hyruken said:
Lets look at it from an analytical view.

The PS3's new 250GB sku boosted sales by about 5k. Which is not too bad really, it is around 20% of last weeks numbers.

However the question for PS3 in Japan is how will they sustain those numbers? FFXIII has now come and gone. And now the new console is out too.
Looking at the horizon of things to come there is not much coming to it in the way of system sellers apart from the beast that is GT5. The problem with that is we have no idea when that will come out. The previously expected March now looks unlikely seeing as we are but a week away from that.

So looking at it from an analysis point of view i think this will be the biggest number of PS3's sold in Japan for sometime.

Well, Yakuza 4 is coming. Don't forget Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid : Rising, Final Fantasy XIV, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Demon's Souls 2. And i remember news about SCEJ working hard (focused) to develop new titles for PS3. The year has only began. I believe some surprise games are hidden.

 


With all due respect, would those people waiting to buy a console for the Yakuza series maybe have bought one for when number 3 came out? If they were that big a fan of the series why would the skip Y3 and go straight to Y4?

MGS Rising will not be out this year in my opinion, and if it is then it will be at the end of the year, Versus won't even be at E3 so no chance it coming out this year, Demon Souls one has just come out, doubt they made a sequel in a few months....

PS3 seems to have concentrated a lot on the early part of the year in my opinion. In a couple of months i think we will see it fall back down to numbers we saw last year, around the 10k-15k mark. Where as the Wii will have some huge titles coming out i.e Super mario galaxy 2, new Zelda and so on. The question is will those games move hardware for Nintendo.


The yakuza part of your argument made sense, I doubt yakuza 4 will shift many consoles but probably enough to maintain the momentum that the ps3 has in japan right now.  As far as ff versus XIII its not a for sure no show at e3 it could still make a surprise debut if everything goes well and they are able to put some kind of demonstration together, nomura didnt completely rule it out but if it doesnt show up at e3 then I will count it as a 2011 release if FFXIII is anything to go by.  Demons souls was not just released in the asian market, its been out there for quite some time so a sequel coming out at the end of the year is definitely not out of the question, that would put the game at roughly 2 years since the first one if it does come out at the end of the year. Also, with Gt5 hopefully seeing a release at the end of the year, last guardian and some others Im probably missing the ps3 is going to have another great year in japan.



 PROUD MEMBER OF THE  PLAYSTATION 3 : RPG FAN CLUB