MS Catching up with Sony in Japan?

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TWRoO on 09 August 2008

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well I just noticed that PS3 is near 2 million and Xbox is not quite at 500k yet. But its better than it was before! Wasn't it doing like 1k a week at one point?

PS3 is over 2.3m and 360 is over 650k.... and the wii > 6.5m

But bear in mind PS2 has sold over 22m in Japan, the gamecube 4.0m and the original xbox only 468k. Nintendo are breaking records and Microsoft are doing quite well considering.

Wow, I hadn't been watching it for a while... but Wii is moe than 60% higher than last gen already, and X360 is 40% higher

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NJ5 on 09 August 2008

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This is the same incorrect wording as those articles that come out claiming "PS3 catching up to Wii" whenever the monthly ratio is closer than the previous months. Like Wii outsold PS3 6:1 in May 2007, then only 4:1 the month after.

I guess what you meant was, X360 is catching up to PS3 in weekly sales.

Another (much more optimistic) way to put it is "X360 is increasing its market share".

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selnor on 09 August 2008

Every week for the last 6 weeks the 360 has been increasing in sales week on week in Japan. So I doubt this figure is due to Tales alone. Next weeks figures will be the Tales bundle as well. PS3 in the same 6 week period has been dropping every week.

I predict 20,000 360 hardware in Japan next week.
9,000 PS3 hardware Japan next week.

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gebx on 09 August 2008

NJ5 said:

TWRoO said:
This is the same incorrect wording as those articles that come out claiming "PS3 catching up to Wii" whenever the monthly ratio is closer than the previous months. Like Wii outsold PS3 6:1 in May 2007, then only 4:1 the month after.

I guess what you meant was, X360 is catching up to PS3 in weekly sales.

Another (much more optimistic) way to put it is "X360 is increasing its market share".

Woohoo!! Market share has gone up to 6.8% (consoles only)

In comparison this week alone it captured 10% of the pie (again consoles only)!

Thats one out of every 10 consoles sold!

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