sorry to sound ignorant but what is this Sengoku Basara 3 that I've seen on this chart for the last few weeks?

It's the Japanese take on Dynasty Warriors and from what I know a far better game

also they had the NA release of the PS2 version of the game by the name of Devil Kings back in the day

Check out some gameplay vids of SB3 on youtube

Pretty typical Obon lift it looks like. HW up by 30,000 using M-C from last week, a good 23% lift overall. Last year was only a 15% lift with Wii not going up from the ongoing Monster Hunter 3 HW fall-off.

PS3 is very near to suprassing Wii's YTD japan sales

PS3 White slim is out that's why the sales are high.

What are they both at?

<table style="width: 90%;" border="0"><tr><td><strong>Carl2291 said:</strong><br /><table style="width: 90%;" border="0"> <tbody><tr> <td><strong>leo-j said:</strong><br> <p>PS3 is very near to suprassing Wii's YTD japan sales</p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>What are they both at?<br><br></p></td></tr></table><br /><br />

They're both over 900,000 from Jan 3 - Aug 15. Wii is like 30,000 ahead or something. Its actually quite similar to last year in Japan - they were within 40k of each other into July before Monster Hunter 3 came out for Wii.

Since the PS3 / Wii price drop they've sold nearly identically in Japan. Looking back, DS / PSP is actually pretty close from 2008 - 2010 in Japan - 9.9m to 7.5m or something so I don't think its too crazy to expect 2009 - 2011 or 2009 - 2012 to be similarly close given that 2008 on the DS / PSP side roughly equals 2010 on the Wii / PS3 side.

Sony probably isn't going to sell 1.2m PS3s between Aug 30 and Jan 2 like it did last year - so with Inazuma Eleven Wii / DKC Wii / Kirby Wii, whatever else may appear at the last moment and the catalogue Nintendo should probably be able to offset Gran Turismo 5 / Move and whatever else Sony may have and eke out another year ahead of PS3.

I wouldn't be too surprised if DKC Returns or the 3DS ends up going against the GT5 launch to try to offset it.

The good news is PS3 and Wii are still up over 2009 through August - and even with price cuts / Slim / FFXIII / NSMB Wii in 2009 they may be able to nearly reach 2009 levels. September is going to be way down for PS3 though in Japan, no question about it, as August was for Wii due to Monster Hunter 3.

Thanks for the advice, checked it out on youtube...Reminds me a lof of Devil May Cry and now I want it!

like last year

maybe Kirby will overturn that