RSSPS3 Sales Recover in Japan
By the Betanews Staff | Published August 3, 2007, 10:52 AM
Sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 recovered somewhat in Japan in July, closing the gap between it and market leader Nintendo according to sales data compiled by Japanese gaming publisher Enterbrain. The PS3 is now being outsold by the Wii by a four to one margin, as opposed to the six to one margin in June. By the numbers, the Wii sold 396,752 consoles to the PS3's 91,987 units. The Xbox 360 sold 17,970.
There really is no single reason that the uptick in sales can be pinned to. However, Sony has made a concerted effort to get more gaming titles on store shelves. This, along with the PS3's high price, have been seen as the biggest problems that it needs to overcome. The Wii sells for 25,000 yen in Japan, half the price of the base-level PS3.
Uhhh, closing the gap???
That's really funny... I would think closing the gap would be like, uhh 10 or 20% off, come on, this is like 1/4 of the amount of Wiis sold... This is a totally BS article. I wonder how much sony is paying betanews for the good publicity.
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|They buy thier own product and resell it just to get headlines like this ;) LOL
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|Not one comment from Dave, Benjamin, or Steve on a Sony story?
Wait, he's here just posting under MinuteMaid and pitdingo.
Dave, your system sucks.
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|Sony must be buying their own product :)
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|Did they temporarally lower the 60gb version there too? If they did that probably had an effect in the resent surge in sales. I'm not sure if they did that their though either. Please don't flame me if they didn't. I know how the PMS3 fanboys get angry about that kind of stuff [... looks at Steve].
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|"Did they temporarally lower the 60gb version there too?"
No, I don't think the price of the PS3 changed there. The PS3 already had the lowest price in Japan, compared to any other region in the world. Even at the lowest price the Japanese are not buying it. That has to tell you something.
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|The PS3 golf game has sold quite a few copies (no2. in the game charts in Japan). I suspect this is a major part of it.
However, if the PS3 has managed to close the gap from 6:1 to 4:1 in a month, and with the stellar lineup of games in the next few months, I think it's safe to say that gap is gonna close some more. However, it won't eradicate the Wii lead for a while yet, catching up on sales is one thing, catching up on previous months sales is a bigger task. Still it's going in the right direction.
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|I'm not gonna enter this argument much. Japanese prefer the exclusives that Sony consoles have, and Japanese 360 support on popular games is very shoddy.
They also have a very different taste in games...very strange stuff. Not that the games are bad, but look at some of the DS games and you'll catch my drift.
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|Maybe because people are getting tired of having to move around to play a video game with the wii?
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|lol. I would see that being a bigger issue in the USA with its obesity epidemic.
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|I agree
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|You don't have to "move around" to play the Wii, it only takes subltle movements of your arm to use the controller. People usually do get up and move more though because the games are just fun.
Oh and god forbid they should get up off their fat asses once in a while and move around. Cry me a river...
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|Are you kidding?! These are Japanese, in other words, tiny active martial artists! Like hell they don't like moving around!
On a serious note; Wii is the top selling console in that country, in every country for that matter. It's also where Nintendo is based; and where the godly Shigeru Miyamoto lives, to whom you we ALL owe gratitude for saving the game industry when Atari went under.
Don't be ignorant.
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|Just jealous we can afford more food, eh?
-A fat person
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|Yeah, you got me. I'm so jealous of your stretch marks, nasty odor, double chin, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and low life expectancy. By the way, anyone can get fat on greasy McDonald's food. They sell their greasy, pig vomit burgers all around the world.
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|I'm still surprised that the 360 is so unpopular there, given the focus MS put on cracking that market... makes one wonder.
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|And may the XBox360, Wii, PS3 arguments continue....
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|I remember ColecoVision and Intellivision fanboy nerds arguing and spitting on each other over who had the best console (it was Coleco by the way). It's never going to stop, ever. The only thing you can do is ignore them.
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|"PS3 Sales Recover in Japan" then later you read: "The PS3 is now being outsold by the Wii by a four to one margin, as opposed to the six to one margin in June."
i guess you could call that a "recovery"
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|considering even the "poor selling" PS3 is outselling the 360 5-1....its doing alright..
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|No, the 360 never had a chance in Japan to begin with, whereas Sony traditionally dominated the market there in recent years. Nice try though. I love the Sony fanboy attitude. Nintendo is mopping the floor with Sony, so let's compare Sony to Microsoft to try and make them look good.
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