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Onyxmeth on 02 April 2009

Am I the only one here that is wondering why this thread exists in some fantasy alternative universe where the fight for Japanese support is only being fought between the PS3 and 360?

I'd like to propose this question, lightly lifted from the OP and adjusted to fit my view on things.

"Why would Japanese developers choose to continue to heavily support the 360 and the PS3 with new exclusives in Japan?"

The PS3 is running millions of consoles behind the Wii in Japan. The entire continent is dominated by two handhelds. All three of those players are significantly cheaper to develop for than the PS3 and 360 are. So why do either of the HD consoles get any Japanese support at all?



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point x on 02 April 2009
BTFeather55 said:
point x said:

     A lot of you are really opposed to the thought of the PS3 making a come back, aren't you?

 

 not ,simply enjoy the consoles and the ''dreams''.. we left on the bed ..

enjoy,..

 



 

 

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Jo21 on 02 April 2009
Onyxmeth said:

Am I the only one here that is wondering why this thread exists in some fantasy alternative universe where the fight for Japanese support is only being fought between the PS3 and 360?

I'd like to propose this question, lightly lifted from the OP and adjusted to fit my view on things.

"Why would Japanese developers choose to continue to heavily support the 360 and the PS3 with new exclusives in Japan?"

The PS3 is running millions of consoles behind the Wii in Japan. The entire continent is dominated by two handhelds. All three of those players are significantly cheaper to develop for than the PS3 and 360 are. So why do either of the HD consoles get any Japanese support at all?

Final Fantasy 13 and Versus going to sell tons there :P.

 

 



BTFeather55 on 02 April 2009
Onyxmeth said:

Am I the only one here that is wondering why this thread exists in some fantasy alternative universe where the fight for Japanese support is only being fought between the PS3 and 360?

I'd like to propose this question, lightly lifted from the OP and adjusted to fit my view on things.

"Why would Japanese developers choose to continue to heavily support the 360 and the PS3 with new exclusives in Japan?"

The PS3 is running millions of consoles behind the Wii in Japan. The entire continent is dominated by two handhelds. All three of those players are significantly cheaper to develop for than the PS3 and 360 are. So why do either of the HD consoles get any Japanese support at all?

 

      You pose an interesting question.  I don't know, but the PS3 has beaten the Wii the past five weeks in Japan.



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BTFeather55 on 02 April 2009
gergroy said:
BTFeather55 said:
gergroy said:
BTFeather55 said:
gergroy said:
BTFeather55 said:
Final Fantasy VII sold 2 million copies week one in Japan. I'm sure that it have to have sold very close to 1 million consoles there that week as well. And, even if it didn't sell 1 million consoles its first week, FFVII was certainly responsible for the sale of 1 million or more PS1's.

 

 so it sold more than half of it's total sales in the very first week?  it only sold 3.94 in japan, do you have a source for this?  I can believe that as a worlwide number, but not japan only.  This thread is full of all sorts of fail, and it is all coming from BT. 

Here's some advice BT, when the vast majority of people commenting on your thread are telling you that you are full of crap.  It is probably because you are.  Recognize this fact and learn from it and don't make any more fail threads like this again.

 

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=756®ion=All

Region            Japan           America     Others       Total
Total Sales     3.93m           3.09m       2.70m        9.72m
Week 1          2,025,834     n/a n/a     2,025,834
Week 2          328,209        n/a n/a     328,209
Week 3         167,030         n/a n/a     167,030
Week 4           77,216         n/a n/a     77,216
Week 5         102,516         n/a n/a     102,516
Week 6           72,582         n/a n/a     72,582
Week 7           63,475         n/a n/a     63,475
Week 8           54,529         n/a n/a     54,529
Week 9           61,631         n/a n/a     61,631
Week 10         51,339         n/a n/a     51,339

 

 gergroy said FFVII only sold 3.94 million copies worldwide.  This website says u r full of fail.

wow, did I say that or does somebody need to brush up on their reading comprehension skills?  As anybody with any kind of brain can see I said in Japan, which your little graphs demonstrates.  It also demonstrates that the 2 mil first week sales you quote earlier is a worldwide number, not a japan number.  you are the one full of fail.  Honestly, how have you lasted this long on this site without being permabanned?

 

     The little graph is official VGChartz sales numbers if you click on the link.  And it says that Final Fantasy VII sold 2,025,834 copies in its first week in Japan.

 

did you even look at that graph?  man you are stupid, I'm sorry, but from what I can see it is true.  Did you not find it odd that others had the exact same sale figures for all 10 weeks?  they didn't distinguish numbers between territories back then, in fact they barely tracked them.  So even these numbers are suspect.  However, it is painfully obvious to anybody with a brain that these are worldwide numbers.  with you not having a brain though, I can understand your ignorance.

p.s.  I'm normally not this rude, you are just be extremely stupid right now.

 

 

      The graph gives an estimate of the sales of Final Fantasy VII in each of the three regions.  3.83 million sold in Japan, 3.09 million sold in America, and 2.70 million sold in Japan with a total of 9.72 million copies sold worldwide.  If you look at sales for other Final Fantasy games (Final Fantasy X also sold over 3 million copies in Japan and XII 2.5+ million copies sold in Japan), and add in the fact that VII is probably one of the more popular FF games (9.72 million for VII, 7.5+ million for X) these seem like very accurate numbers for VII.  The graph gives total sales for the Americas and Other for FFVII but says the weekly totals in each of those regions are not available.  Maybe the numbers given for FFVII's weekly numbers in Japan come from Famitsu or Media Create.  While the Numbers for Americas are based off monthly NPD figures and the numbers in Others are also based off Monthly numbers. 



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Onyxmeth on 02 April 2009
Jo21 said:
Onyxmeth said:

Am I the only one here that is wondering why this thread exists in some fantasy alternative universe where the fight for Japanese support is only being fought between the PS3 and 360?

I'd like to propose this question, lightly lifted from the OP and adjusted to fit my view on things.

"Why would Japanese developers choose to continue to heavily support the 360 and the PS3 with new exclusives in Japan?"

The PS3 is running millions of consoles behind the Wii in Japan. The entire continent is dominated by two handhelds. All three of those players are significantly cheaper to develop for than the PS3 and 360 are. So why do either of the HD consoles get any Japanese support at all?

Final Fantasy 13 and Versus going to sell tons there :P.

 

 

I wish I knew what that has to do with my quoted post. Care to explain?

@BTFeather: I agree on my question being interesting, and what's most interesting is that unlike the topic as a whole, it's rooted in reality. What your topic is doing is just painting the PS3 as some huge success and market leader when the comparison point is the only platform performing worse. You fail to realize the PS3 is in fourth place, and is closer to the 360's sales than it is to the Wii's.

 



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Jo21 on 02 April 2009
Onyxmeth said:
Jo21 said:
Onyxmeth said:

Am I the only one here that is wondering why this thread exists in some fantasy alternative universe where the fight for Japanese support is only being fought between the PS3 and 360?

I'd like to propose this question, lightly lifted from the OP and adjusted to fit my view on things.

"Why would Japanese developers choose to continue to heavily support the 360 and the PS3 with new exclusives in Japan?"

The PS3 is running millions of consoles behind the Wii in Japan. The entire continent is dominated by two handhelds. All three of those players are significantly cheaper to develop for than the PS3 and 360 are. So why do either of the HD consoles get any Japanese support at all?

Final Fantasy 13 and Versus going to sell tons there :P.

 

 

I wish I knew what that has to do with my quoted post. Care to explain?

@BTFeather: I agree on my question being interesting, and what's most interesting is that unlike the topic as a whole, it's rooted in reality. What your topic is doing is just painting the PS3 as some huge success and market leader when the comparison point is the only platform performing worse. You fail to realize the PS3 is in fourth place, and is closer to the 360's sales than it is to the Wii's.

 

 

the snow ball effect possible. third party likely follow since their demographic would be on the ps3.



saicho on 03 April 2009
BTFeather55 said:
It;s going to be so funny this December when the PS3 has sold 5.2 Million copies in Japan and the 360 is still at 1.15 Million consoles sold.

why don't you put this in your sig instead of lowering PS3 number and bump 360 number? Besides, if this were to come true, it is still not even 5:1, not to mention 7:1.



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

Xeta on 03 April 2009

I would just like to ask how BTFeather found his magical "50%" rule where 50% of the sales of a hit game in Japan are to new consumers. Especially considering such a high ratio has almost never occurred ("almost" only because I'm sure there is at least one rule breaker somewhere in VG history). Have you ever thought that the success of massive franchises like FF and GT might come from their ability to sell to many different kinds of people? In other words, they sell to the existing userbase even if they are not hardcore FF/GT fans, or even fans of other parts of the genre. Why else would they be called "mainstream" franchises?



vaio on 03 April 2009
BTFeather55 said:
gergroy said:
BTFeather55 said:
gergroy said:
BTFeather55 said:
gergroy said:

 

 

 

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=756®ion=All

Region            Japan           America     Others       Total
Total Sales     3.93m           3.09m       2.70m        9.72m
Week 1          2,025,834     n/a n/a     2,025,834
Week 2          328,209        n/a n/a     328,209
Week 3         167,030         n/a n/a     167,030
Week 4           77,216         n/a n/a     77,216
Week 5         102,516         n/a n/a     102,516
Week 6           72,582         n/a n/a     72,582
Week 7           63,475         n/a n/a     63,475
Week 8           54,529         n/a n/a     54,529
Week 9           61,631         n/a n/a     61,631
Week 10         51,339         n/a n/a     51,339

 

 gergroy said FFVII only sold 3.94 million copies worldwide.  This website says u r full of fail.

wow, did I say that or does somebody need to brush up on their reading comprehension skills?  As anybody with any kind of brain can see I said in Japan, which your little graphs demonstrates.  It also demonstrates that the 2 mil first week sales you quote earlier is a worldwide number, not a japan number.  you are the one full of fail.  Honestly, how have you lasted this long on this site without being permabanned?

 

     The little graph is official VGChartz sales numbers if you click on the link.  And it says that Final Fantasy VII sold 2,025,834 copies in its first week in Japan.

 

did you even look at that graph?  man you are stupid, I'm sorry, but from what I can see it is true.  Did you not find it odd that others had the exact same sale figures for all 10 weeks?  they didn't distinguish numbers between territories back then, in fact they barely tracked them.  So even these numbers are suspect.  However, it is painfully obvious to anybody with a brain that these are worldwide numbers.  with you not having a brain though, I can understand your ignorance.

p.s.  I'm normally not this rude, you are just be extremely stupid right now.

 

 

      The graph gives an estimate of the sales of Final Fantasy VII in each of the three regions.  3.83 million sold in Japan, 3.09 million sold in America, and 2.70 million sold in Japan with a total of 9.72 million copies sold worldwide.  If you look at sales for other Final Fantasy games (Final Fantasy X also sold over 3 million copies in Japan and XII 2.5+ million copies sold in Japan), and add in the fact that VII is probably one of the more popular FF games (9.72 million for VII, 7.5+ million for X) these seem like very accurate numbers for VII.  The graph gives total sales for the Americas and Other for FFVII but says the weekly totals in each of those regions are not available.  Maybe the numbers given for FFVII's weekly numbers in Japan come from Famitsu or Media Create.  While the Numbers for Americas are based off monthly NPD figures and the numbers in Others are also based off Monthly numbers. 

Am I the only one noticing that in others this game sold more in it´s first 10 weeks then it sold totaly?

Am I reading this wrong or am I missing something here?

If not then there is something wrong with the figures and you would have to be really stupid to not see something is wrong here, but then again you see what you want to see and that is Sony and PS3 victory at all costs even if it means lying and trolling like you do every day and minute on this site.

 



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