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Smashed on 08 October 2008
psrock said:
ps3 got destroyed again

 

Uh, no sir.



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heruamon on 08 October 2008

Looks like 360 is doing jsut fine in Japan, weeks after a price cut...things will heat up during the holiday shopping and the release of some new games.



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Smashed on 08 October 2008
heruamon said:
Looks like 360 is doing jsut fine in Japan, weeks after a price cut...things will heat up during the holiday shopping and the release of some new games.

 

The PS3's fanbase in Japan is much larger, so when these new games come.. The PS3 will eat the 360 for breakfast when the holidays come.



FaRmLaNd on 08 October 2008
Everstar said:
FaRmLaNd said:
The ps3 should be ahead of the 360 again next week. But its simply amazing how long the 360 held on. I mean it started trending upwards before the release of vesperia. Thankfully the 360 has TLR and SO to go :)

 

When do those come out?

According to this website

    The Last Remnant - 11/20/08

    Star Ocean - Doesn't say. Wiki says at some point in 2009. Anyone know when?



Everstar on 08 October 2008
Smashed said:
heruamon said:
Looks like 360 is doing jsut fine in Japan, weeks after a price cut...things will heat up during the holiday shopping and the release of some new games.

 

The PS3's fanbase in Japan is much larger, so when these new games come.. The PS3 will eat the 360 for breakfast when the holidays come.

 

 These new games are only comming out for 360 buddy =)



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Everstar on 08 October 2008
FaRmLaNd said:
Everstar said:
FaRmLaNd said:
The ps3 should be ahead of the 360 again next week. But its simply amazing how long the 360 held on. I mean it started trending upwards before the release of vesperia. Thankfully the 360 has TLR and SO to go :)

 

When do those come out?

According to this website

    The Last Remnant - 11/20/08

    Star Ocean - Doesn't say. Wiki says at some point in 2009. Anyone know when?


Oh nice

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xboxfanboy on 09 October 2008

The 360 beats the ps3 again damn but it will not last. If m$ keep it close next gen the xbox brand will not have a negative stigma attach to it like last time but it still has a long way to go with nintendo ,man the japanese sure like there wii



thx1139 on 09 October 2008

So when is the next game of interest for the PS3 in Japan. Something that will create some sort of excitement in Japan.

As for 360 it will level off very soon if it hasnt already. Even before the last 2 JRPGs and price reduction the 360 was increasing in sales every week in Japan all summer. Not until the supply issues in August did sales drop. So dont expect the sub 5K numbers to be normal any longer.

Until the PS3 starts releasing software the Japanese really want (in quantity) the 360 will be the JRPG console in Japan for the HD generation.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

Millennium on 09 October 2008

A 27% drop is slow?



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Krill on 09 October 2008
Millennium said:
A 27% drop is slow?

 

The PS3 and 360 are selling in such low amounts in Japan that a drop of only a couple of thousand shows as a large percentage drop.  Sales of both are poor.  Japan sales are only notable now because the 360 has been outselling the PS3 the past 4 weeks.  Microsoft are building a platform for their next console by gaining brand acceptance with the Japanese market and they are slowly having some success with that.  Sony already has that brand recognition, but just hasn't delivered what the market wants yet.  I'm sure Sony will get their act together and the PS3 will really take off but they've dropped the ball and Microsoft are capitalizing.