Japan UP - 22nd August 2010

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hatmoza on 27 August 2010

D-Joe said:

kain_kusanagi said:

yo_john117 said:

Japan is always the most boring section out of all 3.

I wonder why it is that the Japanese don't buy Xbox 360. The rest of the world does. Western gamers love Japanese style games so why don't the Japanese enjoy western style games? It's like they refuse to acknowledge anything outside of their island nation, no matter how fun it is.

http://scrawlfx.com/2010/08/niitsuma-xbox-360s-low-japanese-sales-a-cultural-thing

” but I think Japanese consumers usually require a bit more guidance.”

“They tend to be in need of further explanation, so you have to say, “This is big and awesome! And this part is made of this and that’s why it’s good. And this could do this much things and that’s why it’s good,” and I think Sony is probably, so far, better in explaining things to the Japanese market.”

That is the dumbest reason I've read to why 360 fails in Japan.

Culture and PS3 getting more RPG are more believable reasons, but 360 being an alien device, and Japanese consumers needing more guidance is nonsense.

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Attoyou on 27 August 2010

back to 3k for 360? i thought it found a nice spot at 6-7k.

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M.U.G.E.N on 27 August 2010

hatmoza said:

M.U.G.E.N said:

Sengoku Basara or what SB3 is about? Not sure the story line of this entry alone but the overall franchise is the Japanese take on Dynasty Warriors. They had a localized version of the PS2 game in NA by the name Devil Kings. There is an anime series too (fun anime btw, over the top yet fun..imagine one of the lead characters riding his horse with 'handles' like in a Harley Davidson while saying the msot random english lines :P)

Imho it's way better than Dynasty Warriors

I must watch this anime!

Hehe yea go for it..the second season already started and you can find both online easily ;)

oh and btw when is 360s 4Gb releasing in Jp?

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D-Joe on 27 August 2010

M.U.G.E.N said:

hatmoza said:

M.U.G.E.N said:

Sengoku Basara or what SB3 is about? Not sure the story line of this entry alone but the overall franchise is the Japanese take on Dynasty Warriors. They had a localized version of the PS2 game in NA by the name Devil Kings. There is an anime series too (fun anime btw, over the top yet fun..imagine one of the lead characters riding his horse with 'handles' like in a Harley Davidson while saying the msot random english lines :P)

Imho it's way better than Dynasty Warriors

I must watch this anime!

Hehe yea go for it..the second season already started and you can find both online easily ;)

oh and btw when is 360s 4Gb releasing in Jp?

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snfr on 27 August 2010

Nice PS3 sales, I think we will see it above Wii WW this week again.

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Ping_ii on 27 August 2010

Loving the PS3 sales. =)

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kitler53 on 27 August 2010

looks like once americas post wii/ps3 will be within about 1K of each other world wide...now that's what i call a statistical tie!

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	This Year	Last Year	Difference
PS3	28,499	2,905	25,594 (881%)
Wii	17,625	26,592	-8,967 (-33%)
X360	3,708	7,615	-3,907 (-51%)
PS2	1,513	3,924	-2,411 (-61%)

DS	44,967	64,771	-19,804 (-30%)
PSP	27,841	26,833	1,008 (4%)