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Forums - Sales - Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan for fourth time, Four Horsemen draw closer

darkhaven63 on 26 February 2009

The Xbox 360 has only outsold the PlayStation 3 several times before, so we're reticent to bring the Four Horsemen out of their winter hibernation. However, if Japanese hardware sales tracker Media Create is to be believed, the 360 not only outsold the PS3 in Japan last week, it handily trounced all competition, with sales just over 25,000 units (compared to nearly 17,000 units for Wii and just over 16,000 for PS3).

Considering Star Ocean: The Last Hope was released this past week and is outselling every game on the chart by a margin of at least 3:1 (162,232 units, folks -- in one week!), we're taking a stab in the dark here and saying 360 sales had something to do with that. After all, the last few times we put out a call to the horsemen, two other JRPG titles were to blame: Infinite Undiscovery and Tales of Vesperia.

Can you remember the other game that put 360 on top in Japan for a week? Hint: It involves fire and liberation and ... fighter jets. Give up? Too bad! We're still not telling



   

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Xen on 26 February 2009

4th, and last time. Until the next JRPG, that is.



Darc Requiem on 26 February 2009

Ace Combat 6



superbeast1370 on 26 February 2009

so which one is Ric Flair?



Acevil on 26 February 2009
superbeast1370 said:
so which one is Ric Flair?

 

He is the one which the red knight is riding.



 

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BHR-3 on 26 February 2009

yeah good job for 360 it had a good bundle but next week ps3 will be on the top spot for the console race

wonder if the 360 will come in 2nd or 3rd next week in JP



                                                             

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nen-suer on 26 February 2009

Yakuza 3 on the way....watch how many it will sell.......Mooohahahahahah



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MrBubbles on 26 February 2009

title is wrong. its been more than 4 times. even the article says "several"



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gebx on 26 February 2009
MrBubbles said:
title is wrong. its been more than 4 times. even the article says "several"

Yeah, I think this might be the 7th or 8th time..

 



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NeoRatt on 26 February 2009

Nice job for 360...

I think that if anyone would have said that in 360's fourth year and third year for Wii and PS3 that 360 would be able to get a week on top in Japan, I would have called them crazy. Especially after the second year of 360...

The scary part about this time is that I don't think anyone is really surprised. Microsoft is doing a good job to keep support up for 360 in Japan. Although I feel this will be short-lived, Microsoft seems to continue to be serious about staying in Japan.

24,000 this week... One year ago, 2,500.... That really puts it into perspective how Microsoft has improved their situation. Even without the bump for SO4, They had almost 10,000 last week. Not bad for an imported electronic device in Japan.