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Japan: Xbox 360 gets boost, outsells PlayStation 3 2.5-to-1 |
Listed in: News Tags: Japan, Media Create, Microsoft, Namco Bandai, Sony
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There is a certain order to the universe one has to accept. The sky is blue, Mario has a red hat, and Master Chief's face will always be hidden to the world (he's mysterious like that). However, it looks like some rules are made to be broken.Way back when, the Xbox 360 has always been more popular than the PlayStation 3 in the US, and the reverse was true in Japan. But then the PS3 started outselling the 360 in the US earlier this year - and now it looks like the tables may also be turning in Japan.
The Xbox 360 recently outsold the PlayStation 3 in Japan 2.5-to-1, thanks to the release of Namco Bandai's Tales of Vesperia. From a meager 4,941 units the previous week, Microsoft's console sold 24,962 for the week of August 10. That's about a 500% increase in sales, if my math is right.
The DS and the PSP still lead the pack, and the Wii, of course, is still the highest selling console in the region. Here's the rest of the numbers for the week of August 10:
- Nintendo DS - 60,434
- PSP - 58,501
- Wii - 38,506
- Xbox 360 - 24,962
- PlayStation 3 - 9,673
- PlayStation 2 - 8,503
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Via Media Create
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Honestly in a slow month like August for video game industry it isn't the best to judge which console is picking up speed but it is still very interesting to hear.
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Oh, and first comment!
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Down with third-party exclusives! And up with first-party exclusives!
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And if you think the Japanese people would choose an American product over a Japanese product, you are dead wrong.
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It'll do the same with infinit undiscovery, wich will hurt the ps3 badly. If Squeenix decide to port FFvs13 on the x360, the ps3 will die in Japan, wich include that it will die everywhere (my opinion). But if FFvs13 and other BIG JRPG like white knight story, pop on the ps3 exclusively, the ps3 could still win the war. It's really haard to say. Still, I'll exchange my ps3 with my friend's x360 from times to times, so we can play the other console's exclusives!
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It's called a console pusher, guys. It happens from time to time. It amazes me that some of you are actually offended about this. Are you that insanely dedicated to being an ignorant fanboy?
I say good job to Microsoft. Getting the 360 to sell well in a biased country is great marketing and planning and will only help to encourage them to make similar games.
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probably europe too
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So yeah FFxiii won't drive any sales in Japan but psychologically a company like Square showing so much love to Microsoft lends clout to a product the Japanese see as inferior/defective.
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I didn't know about the release of that game. That makes more sense now.
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I'd have to say the Japanese love American things BUT the Microsoft consoles are the exceptions.
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and finally mgs4.
metal gear is the very reason why i became a gamer.
i have no worries even a lot of j-rpg comes to 360.
i already expected that ps3 will be overtaken someday by 360 due to lack of games. but i really can't tell which console will emerge victorious in the end. MGS is more than enough for me.. i really learned a lot from the game.
"Be loyal not to your country, not to your mission but to yourself" after playing all mgs games, i finally learned the meaning behind these words.
i am no ps3 fanboy, maybe you can call me mgs fanboy *laughs*
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I think thats an illegal operation!
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neither sony nor microsoft know what the hell they are doing really, and every one of you knows if Nintendo pushed a machine with comparable graphics, and started releasing games that werent designed for infants, sony and microsoft would both ***** bricks. (get it?)
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MGS is the game that i never get tired of even if i repeat the game over and over again.
mgs4 at home, mgs portable ops outdoors...
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So THAT's why Apple Computers sell more products per capita in Japan than in the US or Europe.
Wonder why Sony and their own MP3 player brands aren't outselling the iPod there.
Oh... It's clearly because "Japs" don't like American stuff.
And stop using racist terms, you potential yank or limey.
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*sigh* It's kinda s2pid that they skipped Lost Odyssey
I'm scared, when I'm in Japan again I dunno what to do with my UK 360, the Microsoft Points will be a ***** to buy.
{Goes back to playing BLACK on 360}
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Yes i own a PS3, and 2 and 1 and p and SXRD and Handycam and walkman and minidisc and I am what you would call a SONY fan, but i would never say that i won't get a 360, cause i also have an XBOX, and Having it chipped was the best thing I ever did, so i'd like the chance to stick it to MS at least once more - cause lord knows that they've done it to us for long enough.
(SORRY for going soooooo off tangent, but really needed to say something somewhere)
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And the 360 wasn't technically sub-par. Infact it's very reasoning for crashing so often was it was being pushed to the limit. 3 years ago it was producing such amazing visuals that even the later-launched PS3 struggled to even match for a long time.
Granted that's now fixed with the new chipsets (down to the Wii and Ps3's 0.7% failure rate). So there you go.
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And I hope you weren't trying to insult Americans, by saying yank? Limey? What the-? I'm not a *****ing fruit.
Japs can go ***** themselves.
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