In the olden days, doubling Xbox 360 sales in Japan used to mean going from 1,024 a week to 1,745 a week and using a bit of statistical rounding up and hoping no one notices. But not in Microsoft's New Golden Era of Japanese successes!

Last week, thanks to incomprehensibly high levels of excitement surrounding Square's average-at-best RPG The Last Remnant, Microsoft managed to sell 15,474 consoles in Japan - up from the previous week's 7,983, making it yet another great seven days for Microsoft Japan's spreadsheet compilers.

Sadly, this was a bit less than PlayStation3 shifted, with Sony somehow managing to convince 17,436 poor, lost, confused and dare we say STUPID souls that buying a Blu-ray player without any good games is a sound investment idea in these troubled financial times.

Wii was miles ahead of them both as ever and even PSP did very well too, which is the real puzzling mystery here. What do people do with all these PSPs once they've bought them? Mine's been in a drawer with Lumines still in its slot for the last 26 months.

Wow, PS-bashing to the max.

lanjiaona said: In the olden days, doubling Xbox 360 sales in Japan used to mean going from 1,024 a week to 1,745 a week and using a bit of statistical rounding up and hoping no one notices. But not in Microsoft's New Golden Era of Japanese successes! Last week, thanks to incomprehensibly high levels of excitement surrounding Square's average-at-best RPG The Last Remnant, Microsoft managed to sell 15,474 consoles in Japan - up from the previous week's 7,983, making it yet another great seven days for Microsoft Japan's spreadsheet compilers. Sadly, this was a bit less than PlayStation3 shifted, with Sony somehow managing to convince 17,436 poor, lost, confused and dare we say STUPID souls that buying a Blu-ray player without any good games is a sound investment idea in these troubled financial times. Wii was miles ahead of them both as ever and even PSP did very well too, which is the real puzzling mystery here. What do people do with all these PSPs once they've bought them? Mine's been in a drawer with Lumines still in its slot for the last 26 months.

Trolling on the PS3.

The sales increase from TLR was actually disappointing. Especially after what happened with Tales of Vesperia and Infinite Undiscovery. The OP is attempting to spin the situation and doing a poor job of it.

Id say 100k sales with a base of 600k to sell to is pretty damn amazing really. That is like 1 in 6.
Compare those sales to say LBP that sold around 200k-300k WW. With 17m consoles to sell that to is about 1 in 16 consoles sold to. So in comparison as much as you try and spin it the sales of TLR were actually very good.

1. If this is your own work, then you can find any number of ways to praise 360 sales in Japan without calling PS3 owners stupid.
2. If this isn't your own work then perhaps this will teach you to source your articles when you post them.