Any boost is good there will be several for the ps3 soon RE5 Jp bundle FF Jp bundle New Eu bundle all coming out soon

very good....44K increase is great between them

This is a good thing for Sony. This is a sign of good things to come.

God bless Japan .

price cut is needed badly, those 2 were the best sony has this year and it only gave the ps3 a 12k lead, that is baaaaad.

Best, not really.

Japan might probably get FF13, Uncharted2 might be huge.  The previous Uncharted surely has more good will towards it then Killzone2 predecessor ever had.  GOW3 might be this year, who knows.

Theres no telling now what game might be the next Gears. 

And its not like 360 has anything big coming.

the increase was pretty good when you take into account the cost of the PS3 and the current economic environment. Also Killzone 1 wasn't a big success (it did ok), so you add on top that Killzone isn't a big drawcard name, its very very impressive.

Japanese-centrist are we?

It's very good especially with the price, really do think that once the PS3 gets a price drop it will match 360 numbers again with ease. System sellers are nice and all but a price cut will do wonders.......expect GT5 which will sell 5x the hardware Killzone 2 and Yakuza 3 sold. :P

I have posted this numerous times. The KZ2 boost was without a shadow of a doubt larger than people think.

Considering how every single console and handheld dropped from the previous week in the US are you implying that without Killzone 2 the PS3 would have been the only one to not decrease? I would say that is good news for the PS3.

If your not implying that then you would have to assume the Killzone 2 boost was actually more than just 13k.

 

Thanks to Smeags for the charts.

Console	Last Week	This Week
	240,440	168,205
	146,125	115,117
	94,783	76,794
	54,718	66,003
	51,760	46,549

PS3: +11,285
PSP: -5,211
360: -17,989
DS: -31,008
Wii: -72,235

I know it is not 13k, it is 11,285, but that is the number the person I was responding to used in that other thread. He was talking about WW. Which I still think wasn't 13k but whatever.

Also if I am not mistaken, didn't sales drop across the board for the other consoles in Europe+Others as well?

In Europe consoles dropped as well, just as they did in the US. So going by that the increase for PS3 was actually larger than people thought there as well.

As also said in another thread, if we assume PS3 would have only dropped half as many sales as the 360 (which considering price, we can also assume it would have dropped by more than just half) had Killzone 2 not released, you can add a minimum of around 20k more hardware sales to the current total. High end you could add 30k+.

Killzone 2 definitely sold many units. Even as much as a 50% increase combined between the two territories as opposed to what it would have undoubtedly dropped to.