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Train wreck on 20 January 2010
Metallicube said:
dolemit3 said:
fwap said:
dolemit3 said:
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
no Ps3 game, not even FF13, i remember back in time people making FF13 so huge that it would stop the Wii in Japan...

every time something huge is about to enter Wii territory Nintendo releases something even more huge....

great for Darkside Chronicles

even though there is no PS3 game in the top ten, the PS3 may actually beat the Wii this week in Japan. The numbers were quite close last week.

 

 

20% difference != "quite close"

Less than 10% actually and the Wii is dropping at a faster rate than the PS3

Problem there is the Wii is selling by far more NINTENDO games in Japan of late than PS3. FFXIII is really the only game currently keeping the PS3 "afloat" in Japan right now. Sooner or later something has to give. A console that is selling very little software cannot keep pace with a console that consistanty sells tons of software, especially when a giant like NSMB Wii is now unleashed. You could argue that the Blu ray player is a major selling point that will keep the PS3 going, but it's only a secondary feature, which cannot keep it going on its own.

We'll have to see what happens over the next few months as the software scale is starting to lean back towards PS3 in quality releases, but that doesn't necessarilly mean they will all sell well.

Fixed your post.



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silverlunar777 on 20 January 2010

Impressed by Kingdom Hearts! pretty nice.

Not bad for Resident Evil too.



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iLLmaticV3 on 20 January 2010

Birth By Sleep still holding the number one spot...WOW!



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jarrod on 20 January 2010
Train wreck said:

Problem there is the Wii is selling by far more NINTENDO games in Japan of late than PS3. FFXIII is really the only game currently keeping the PS3 "afloat" in Japan right now. Sooner or later something has to give. A console that is selling very little software cannot keep pace with a console that consistanty sells tons of software, especially when a giant like NSMB Wii is now unleashed. You could argue that the Blu ray player is a major selling point that will keep the PS3 going, but it's only a secondary feature, which cannot keep it going on its own.

We'll have to see what happens over the next few months as the software scale is starting to lean back towards PS3 in quality releases, but that doesn't necessarilly mean they will all sell well.

Fixed your post.

Not the market's fault that Nintendo games are by far the ones most worth buying on consoles these days.  3rd parties slept on Wii's initial years when they should've been marketing building (as they did day one on PS2), now they'll have to live with the consequences.



Arius Dion on 20 January 2010

Damn, 8/10 are on Nintendo Platforms. Wonder when we'll get HW.



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Zucas on 20 January 2010

Strong week for Birth by Sleep and continued success of NSMB Wii and Tomodatchi Collection among other regulars. Also Darkside Chronicles has a pretty good opener and I'd say a lot of that has to do with that very nice special edition of the game they got... still makes me jealous haha.



johnsobas on 20 January 2010

famitsu had tomadachi collection at 98k last week and RE:DC is above it this week. The big drop already happened last week so tomodachi probably wouldn't have dropped a whole lot. I'd say this puts RE:DC between 80-113k. It is likely over 90k.



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Sapphire on 20 January 2010

good numbers



lazyrider on 21 January 2010

MC numbers in and RE:DSC is at 73k. Famitsu could show differently though.



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Zlejedi on 21 January 2010
fwap said:
NoCtiS_NoX said:
fwap said:
dolemit3 said:
fwap said:
dolemit3 said:
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
no Ps3 game, not even FF13, i remember back in time people making FF13 so huge that it would stop the Wii in Japan...

every time something huge is about to enter Wii territory Nintendo releases something even more huge....

great for Darkside Chronicles

even though there is no PS3 game in the top ten, the PS3 may actually beat the Wii this week in Japan. The numbers were quite close last week.

 

 

20% difference != "quite close"

Less than 10% actually and the Wii is dropping at a faster rate than the PS3

20% according to Vgchartz: http://www.vgchartz.com/jweekly.php

10% according to Famitsu

 

Wii fell faster because it was so much higher to begin with. PS3 is falling fast too.

But but we are on the Famitsu thread.

On the Vgchartz website.

Whatever the true figure, 10-20% is a comfortable margin. Wii won't fall below PS3 this week.

Yeah and as we all know the VGC surely has better coverage and contacts with Japanise retailers than Famitsu... oh wait.

 

Even if Wii stays above PS3 this week PS3 will come on top at week of 28th of Jan when PS3 get's two jRPGs including End of Eternity (should be 100k+ game)



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