yes quite possible but with the 360 in Japan right now we are not looking for one week explosions.  We are looking for consisten increases, which although something it has been showing, is nothing to brag about.  I mean Wii increases by 100% and we are over 100,000 units.  360 increases by 100% in Japan and we are looking at 5,000 units.  So this is why these steady increases really don't catch my attention as something important yet but just the nature of the beast.  Going off some good hype and seeing some increases.  My question is not will their new numbers last but with the increases get larger then start o last.  If 8 weeks from now, the 360 is at a consistent base of 5 digits then something is going on.  If it's just a 5 digit week then back to norm or some small slopes then well it's just trendy and will fade away when it loses that slight brand appeal from whencever it came. 

Point being that alhtough these 360 bumps in japan are exciting considering 360 has been deader than Brittney Spear's morality, but I think we need to wait a little longer before we start speculating on what's going on.

If you look at videos of Gundam Operation Troy, it really looks like not bad a game. The Japanese are just after good games like everyone else and more of them are biting thats all. It may have even done better if not for the FPS gameplay.

http://www.gamersyde.com/news_3801_en.html

RPGs are the main thing though and I cant wait to see Tales/IU week.

PSP iz on tizzop again!

I had no idea that an announcement for a game could increase game sales.

I'd just chalk up 360 sales to being too low to get an accurate read.

How long before the 360 starts outselling the PS3 in Japan? Predictions?

WoW thats interesting... could you even tell me what is bad about it?

First of all, I am a gamer. As a gamer, I want to have good games. Microsoft is satisfying their customers. The customer will not care how a good game made its way on a console. He will buy and enjoy it, thats all.

 Besides that, it is a win / win situation for square and ms. The only loser is Sony. Not Sonys customers, they won't care either, how this game made its way. They will buy and enjoy it aswell. This is no trolling, that is just the business.

Back to sales:

Nintendo is dominating the entire market. Worldwide the wii and the DS combined sold more than PSP, PS3 and Xbox360 together. That is just impressive. They sell nearly 850.000 consoles of the DS and wii in one week. Thats just insane.

Do you really think a modified DS would increase its sales significantly? Nintendo sells like 5 million units this year in japan. would this number increase to 10 million? There is no need to modify the ds for europe or the us. It is just a cash cow that should be milked in my eyes.

Frankly the 360 deserve better sales in Japan, they have a really worked hard at delivering good games in a country that ignores its greatness..........

 15K hours, give or take a thousand.

Well Famitsu only had the 360 at 3600. So if media create is at 3600 or below, we know it is just VGC overtracking it for this week.

The DS beat the PSP figures for last week - its just coincidence that the PSP released a new colour to boost sales at the same time.

Sales of all the PSP, DS & Wii are pretty healthy at the moment. WiiFit has done a great job of keeping Wii sales above 30k-40k for the entire year (along with some help).

Not too sure what is going to happen to PS3 sales in the short term.

You win. Best excuse i have ever heard. The PSP beat DS this week dude, just admit it.