Ps3 is not dead in Japan. It's just a sleepy giant atm. Ps3 will awaken soon. I'm confident that we will see big changes (good) in the near future.

Thanks for calling me dumb. Personal insults on the net make you so big and strong! Yes, the big influx of Wii sales right now is because of two huge games for the system. PS3 had closed the gap a little bit before those games were released. Wii outsold PS3 like 6 to 1 in June or July then got outsold for a whole month in November and there were no shortages in Japan at this time. I should have said the Wii is having such good sales currently in Japan because of these 2 games.

Well I hope that at Microsoft keeps paying for JRPG exclusives, and that Sony either starts paying for them or starts selling enough PS3's to warrant them being made.

It would be a crying shame if the Xbox 360 stopped getting great JRPG's and the PS3 didn't start getting great JRPG's brought to the West simply because MS stopped paying and the PS3 didn't sell enough in Japan.

Are you going to keep ignoring the reasons for that temporary November surge on PS3 sales? Are you going to keep acting as if it was anything more than a temporary spike which always accompanies price cuts and new models (in this case both at the same time, besides all the other stuff I listed above)?

The fact is that the PS3 never had any momentum in Japan. Even the 360 managed to outsell the PS3 for a week, and no one is saying the 360 had momentum.

No i'm just saying that PS3 was getting closer to Wii around Nov-Jan and then the big Wii games came out and we are seeing huge Wii sales in Japan and less than average PS3 sales. The price still needs to come down in Japan for it to have "momentum", along with some of the huge exclusives. If they really have to pay $85 bux for games, it will never sell. I wonder how much a Wii game is over there?

I don't like the PS3 because it was a clumsy arrogant and awkward product forced onto the market three to five years before it was economically viable. Forced Blu-Ray on any PS3 consumer increasing the price tag exponentially. And since then has offered many games either ruined by the pitiful six-axis, ridden with glitches due to poor programming, that look better on the 360 or require loading large chunks of data onto the HDD.

Not to mention the PS3 has all but abandoned Backwards Compatibility and even when it did have it, the system required firmware updates to make it work right and adaptors to use memory cards and other accessories. Let's also not forget "Rumble" being last gen, yet now they somehow miraculously find a way to include it but at the same time not bundle it with the console.

Call me picky, I know, but that's just how I roll.

I have a different viewpoint. I love new technology and feel Sony is the only one giving us the future. To my knowledge there is only one game ruined by sixxaxis and that was Lair and they are fixing it. :) Look at how many Wii games have been ruined by "waggle". The poor programming is the 3rd parties fault (EA). Backwards compatibility is not dead. There are rumors going around the PS forums that it will be available for download on PSN for the current 40gb owners in the near future. You do not need an adapter to use memory cards on your PS3, only to transfer data from your PS2 memory card. Rumble wasn't included because of liscensing problems. Sony did lie about that one though, they made an excuse to cover it up. I will get to my point, Sony has been a bit dishonest in some areas regarding the PS3. But I believe it was necessary for them to give us a system that is as future proof as possible.

Gamer Girl, is Resident Evil not even enough for you to enjoy playing a Playstation 3?

Why would that be enough?