@ mrstickball

 

I don't think your comparison is fair, as, being much newer and having a limited lineup, PS3 owners ended up buying these games because they had to play something...anything...at all.

You were talking about attatch rates, but you ignored the overall attatch rates, which are barely over 1 for PS3. There are many games avilable for 360 in Japan. There aren't for PS3. The sales are currently split amongst far fewer competing titles.

Anyway, the point is Xbox has always done worse than PS in Japan when the two systems were at parity or favouring Sony (game title support and price). Right now they aren't. 360 is cheaper and certainly doesn't have worse support atm, even in Japan. I'd say Japanese gamers (who are very much turned off both alternatives right now) may actually end up considering a 360 for DMC4 and such, because they can save some money on the system.

 

@ NorthStar

No one pays $600 (or $500, or even $420 for the 20GB Japanese unit) for as yet non-existent quirky-wierd games. Not even in Japan.

IMO it quite a horror experience for Sony concerning Japanese PS3 sales. They thought that they could take Japan ( and the rest of the world as well for that matter) by storm. So far it's been only a big cloud with little rain.

huh,

VGC japan numbers : 1 M PS3 vs 2.98 M Wii ?

What s happen ?

It's a bit like a 16 year old finally passing the 8th grade. Sure it's cause for celebration, but for all the wrong reasons.

koffieboon said: Actually, it hasn't reached 1M yet, 997,808 is still about 2200 consoles short of it. Next week it will really be above 1M.

F&ck it, I'll buy the last 2,192 consoles myself ;)

 

Now anybody know where I can get a really, REALLY good deal on HDTV's?

vizunary said: koffieboon said: Actually, it hasn't reached 1M yet, 997,808 is still about 2200 consoles short of it. Next week it will really be above 1M. F&ck it, I'll buy the last 2,192 consoles myself ;)   Now anybody know where I can get a really, REALLY good deal on HDTV's?

 Forget HDTVs, with that much resolution power it's IMAX all the way

bugmenot said: @ mrstickball   I don't think your comparison is fair, as, being much newer and having a limited lineup, PS3 owners ended up buying these games because they had to play something...anything...at all. You were talking about attatch rates, but you ignored the overall attatch rates, which are barely over 1 for PS3. There are many games avilable for 360 in Japan. There aren't for PS3. The sales are currently split amongst far fewer competing titles. Anyway, the point is Xbox has always done worse than PS in Japan when the two systems were at parity or favouring Sony (game title support and price). Right now they aren't. 360 is cheaper and certainly doesn't have worse support atm, even in Japan. I'd say Japanese gamers (who are very much turned off both alternatives right now) may actually end up considering a 360 for DMC4 and such, because they can save some money on the system.   @ NorthStar No one pays $600 (or $500, or even $420 for the 20GB Japanese unit) for as yet non-existent quirky-wierd games. Not even in Japan.

The PS3 attach rate now stands at 1.5. It's not my fault that PS3 owners in Japan are primarily desiring the PS3 for Blu-Ray, and not games. If more X360 games are out, wouldn't that make it harder for the multi-ports to sell better on the X360, since there's a stronger lineup of 1st party games? Your logic is wrong. Since the tier rates are low for the PS3, it should make them go out and buy alot of games that are new. The tier ratio is steadily increasing, because as of Golden Week, the ratio was at 1.1, and it's increased by nearly 50% in just 3 months. Again, must I mention that despite the PS3 having the lower tier ratio, it *has* sold twice the number of hardware units LTD of the X360, and leads it by about 6:1 when considering where the X360 was at this time last year? Not only this, the X360 attach ratio was much closer to the PS3s at this point in it's lifecycle LTD. Although the X360 stands around 3.4 attatch ratio, the 360 was around 2.0 at this point last year. That still didn't manage to screw up my comparisons of Enchant Arms, did it? And again, we're talking mostly western multi-ports here. Im just trying to be fair, and despite the attach ratios being lower for the PS3, it is, and will, sell at a 2:1 for software, like it should.

bugmenot said: I've been waiting for it, and now finally, approximately 8 months after launch, PS3 has reached the 1 million mark in Japan according to VGChartz... well, someone had to make this thread.

Congrats to Sony, to reach this goal. At which time XBOX360 will reach this goal? What are your predictions about this? I think, because MS had reached now more than 400000 consoles with a year headstart, they will not reach the million within 2008, they need 2009. Two things can help to reach the million in 2008: More games with japan-appeal (like Blue Dragon) are used in clever marketing to boost sales (bundles?). Second: Square-Enix announces that FFXIII loses PS3-exclusivity and comes to X360 too.

Nice comparison mrstickball. I think DMC4 and RE5 will sell alot better on the PS3 1.The Japanese dont like american companies Japanese tend to buy things from companies of their own country 2.bigger install base.