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Which will give a bigger WW boost

Tales of Xillia 29 25.89%
 
Gears of War 3 68 60.71%
 
similar boosts 15 13.39%
 
Total:112
Adobo on 07 September 2011

Xilia sounds like an S.T.D. name so I would go for Gears.



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arcane_chaos on 07 September 2011

I think gears will take it; Gears has a potential boost from NA and EMEAA
while Xilia is only in Japan



postofficebuddy on 07 September 2011

According to Media Create PS3 sales are flat this week despite MH3HD releasing last week and nothing releasing this week. This makes me think that the true impact of the price cut in Japan has been held back for the past few weeks because people are waiting for the Xillia bundle. Which also makes me think that the boost next week is going to be very significant.



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Seece on 07 September 2011

Depends if 360 gets a cut the week before.



 

Marks on 07 September 2011
postofficebuddy said:
Marks said:
postofficebuddy said:
Marks said:
Gears...by a country mile


Neither one will win 'by a country mile'. Gears is a much smaller franchise than Halo and the boost will likely be noticably smaller than Reach, and possibly smaller than 3. Xillia will probably top out at around the same boost as MHTri. So regardless of which one wins it won't be by a significant margin. Personally I think the Xillia boost will edge out the Gears boost by a small 3k-8k margin.


Gears is Microsoft's 2nd biggest franchise. Xillia is...wait...what is Xillia? Has anyone outside of Japan (or this site) heard of it?

I'm not saying Japan isn't important, I'm just saying Japan hates the Xbox so it won't really matter.

 

Just my opinion, I could be wrong and I'm prepared to eat crow if I am.


Had anyone really heard of Monster Hunter Tri outside of Japan back in '09? Both series are small potatoes outside Japan, doesn't mean they don't move HW inside of it. This prediction has more to do with how hardcore the collectors in Japan are than how big the series is in the overall scheme of things. I'm not even trying to infer that 'Tales of' is a bigger series than Gears. Obviously it's not.


Well if it had been on PS3 I'd say Xillia would move big hardware, but Xbox fails in Japan so that's more why I think it'll fail. Its not just due to the small size of the series. 



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reviniente on 07 September 2011
postofficebuddy said:
According to Media Create PS3 sales are flat this week despite MH3HD releasing last week and nothing releasing this week. This makes me think that the true impact of the price cut in Japan has been held back for the past few weeks because people are waiting for the Xillia bundle. Which also makes me think that the boost next week is going to be very significant.

According to Amazon.co.jp, the Xillia bundle hasn't received any price cut. What exactly would people have to wait for? Besides, it's costs $510.00!



deskpro2k3 on 07 September 2011

hard to say. but if NA gets that sexy bundle it'll be a really close call. i think

I want it lol

 



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Signalstar on 07 September 2011

Gears



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reviniente on 07 September 2011

Apparently the Gears of War bundle has sold out at Amazon.co.jp, and being resold at an even more ridiculous price.



postofficebuddy on 07 September 2011
reviniente said:
postofficebuddy said:
According to Media Create PS3 sales are flat this week despite MH3HD releasing last week and nothing releasing this week. This makes me think that the true impact of the price cut in Japan has been held back for the past few weeks because people are waiting for the Xillia bundle. Which also makes me think that the boost next week is going to be very significant.

According to Amazon.co.jp, the Xillia bundle hasn't received any price cut. What exactly would people have to wait for? Besides, it's costs $510.00!


The bundle did get a price cut.

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/08/17/sony-also-cuts-price-of-tales-of-xillia-ps3/

Amazon is probably just increasing the price because it's in short supply. And Japan has always paid more than America for video games in general.

:edit: Well as I said in the OP Japan goes crazy for limited edition bundles, even if its for western games. So the Gears bundle being sold out isn't that surprising. Although keep in mind, MS probably aren't shipping that many to Japan anyway. There was only about 5k of the Reach bundle in Japan.



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