Lol Hyruke was quoted like 7 times! Nice!

Anyway, although Japan is making me sad as a whole, that was a fucking awsome boost for the PS3! If a demo can do that, could you imagine the real thing? It should make for some kick ass entertainment.

Well that is what happens when people start yapping without reading the thread first.

hmm I won't bother quoting hyruken

Wow 57K for the PS3! that's almost the first week hardware numbers for when Metal Gear Solid 4 was released (77K), and this is just a demo lol

I think the PS3 has a shot at outselling the Wii in Japan for 2009. By the looks of it the Wii is going to be stuck at under 20K for most of the year. Even if it does come out with a big game, I highly dought it's going to shoot it back up to selling 40K - 50K every week because of any game in 2009, it'll more then likely have the same affect that most big games have on consoles, it'll have one big week then slowly go back to selling what it was normally selling. Final Fantasy XIII and possibly Gran Turismo 5 at the end of 2009 is going to make the PS3 explode in Japan, after that it should be smooth sailing of high hardware sales :)

 But PS3 will also need a good price cut to start selling some decent amount of hardware every week along with the games

Wow 57k never thought it would go so high if its true, i actually predicted 50k in prediction league :)

Still at the price the PS3 is in Japan it's selling really well (double what it was selling last year). There more then likely will be a price cut this year, the big question is when. If they can manage a price cut right before FFXIII's release....well I don't even want to image how much sales would explode.

And yea how much did Dark Knight on blu-ray sell in its first week and how many blu-ray players did it sell.  That might be on a WW basis, but it makes this look quite miniscule. 

But on the larger side this was a very good boost PS3 but will more than likely be short lived.  Although Golden Week will help to offset some o the losses for a short time.  But once again this goes back to the relatively low amount of stability in Japan right now.  And we have to start thinking of things that could give one of the consoles stability.  MHG on Wii will release next week and give it a nice little jolt and then we'll have Golden weeks.  But will any of them get over the instability and start consistently outselling the competitor? 

Something needs to release and give one of those consoles that edge.  Or a price cut.  Who knows.  But for right now Japan is NOT a battleground.  Japan is an instable amount of electric jolts that amount to NOTHING.  Battlegrounds are close competitions on an a basis entirely not some weekly jolts.  If PS3 can assert itself as the stable console in the market and move on it's way to catching up to the Wii then we have a battleground.  Until then it's constant instability because of no clear top brand.  People may find it interesting, maybe even biasedly amusing, that Wii is on some of it's worst trends to date right now, but if PS3 (or 360) can't do anything about it... then who cares. 

As I've said before, one of those games that can affect that stability right now guys is Wii Sports Resort.  If there is anything releasing within the next few months that could do that... it's WSR.  I'm not saying it will, but if I were Sony and in this position where I have a true chance to turn something around, I'd make sure I do it before the sequel to the biggest cultural hit in gaming since Super Mario Bros. releases. 

So we can look at the weekly numbers in Japan and think we have an idea of how it's going to go but right now all you are seeing is weeks of instability due to the fall of the top brand.  It doesn't matter until someone reasserts itself as the top brand again.  It's not like Japan's hardware sales are close on any standard (Wii- 8 million, PS3- 3 million, 360- 1 million).  It's all about the realignment of brands.  PS3 can do it but it has to do better than what it has been doing if it wants to catch Nintendo and the Wii while its down.

My god!!! A demo moving a console to +50k!!! Unbelievable!!!

That's FFXIII for ya :)