RSSXbox Is #2 in Japan -- For a Week
By the Betanews Staff | Published November 9, 2007, 12:24 PM
In a potentially historic milestone, the Xbox 360 has outsold the PlayStation 3 for the first time in its history in Japan, according to statistics from Media Create. Sales of Microsoft console shot up some 500 percent on the back of the Bandai release Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, which debuted at #2 on the Japanese video game charts this week.
The console sold 17,673 units during the week, up from 3,718 in the week previous. This was just enough to place it in the #2 spot ahead of the PS3, which sold 17,434 consoles. This was down week to week from 18,785 units two weeks ago. Nintendo's Wii is still outselling both by far, with 37,617 consoles sold. "Kiss your loved ones, hug your friends, because if this keeps up we've reached the end of days," Alexander Sliwinski wrote for Joystiq in reporting the news.
Looks like Joey picked up a new nick (see mano1192). The XBOX is and always be the better console. PSN truly sucks compared to XBOX Live but all Sony fanboys keep saying PSN will be better Soon ... Only Not Yet.
If you are even thinking about these two consoles, get a 360 Elite and not the ghetto core system, the PS3 is complete rushed to production joke with a sad library and a substandard Blu-Ray player.
Joey knows this and comes in here to take out his anger on everybody. He's pissed that his console / HD movie player cannot keep up with the 360 or HD-DVD.
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|wow 200 units for one week with people waiting for the new unit coming out next week. Hardly news but yet again BN decides to air this crap for the flamers..
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|This was reported by others as well, you Sony fangirls really need to stop getting your panties in a twist.
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|It's obvious the PS3 is going nowhere. Hats off to Microsoft and the superior gaming system.
As you can see, great games sell systems, not unfinished, mediocre HD formats.
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|Woo, Xbox360 sells 200 more consoles for 1 week in Japan, it seems that's newsworthy.
Yet, the PS3 in UK outselling the 360 every week for the last month, by a factor of 3x seems to have been "forgotten" by Betanews.
How does it feel to be manipulated BetaPuppets?
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|The biggest lemming we have had the privilege of laughing at calling everyone else "puppets". Another frustrated Joey post, the Japs will realize one day the 360 is a way better console in every department including warranty.
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|Again this is posted on other sites then betanews, its news because IT HAS NEVER HAPPENED
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|The PS3 was released 1 year ago exactly. (November 11, 2006). Saying something has never happened when it has only been possible for a year is being seriously melodramtic. I don't own a PS3 nor do I have any intention of buying one, but think this is some major embarassment to Sony or a sign of anything is idiotic. It took a 500% increase from the previous week (directly attributed to the release of one game) and a slump by the PS3 for the XBox 360 to eke out a 200 console advantage.
Toyota surpassing GM as the #1 automaker in the world was major news as the two have been around for over 75 years, and Toyota has slowly, but steadily been catching GM for years. So there was a visible trend towards a s*** in the industry. This XBox360 "victory" is a complete fluke, that even Stevie Wonder can see will vanish be next week. Flukes aren't newsworthy.
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|Spoken like a true fanboy, since the playstation has been out Xbox has NEVER outsold them, so its a small victory, its significant because it shows how bad its doing.
Even squenix has signed on with MS to make games that would appeal more to the japanese crowd.
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|I think Microsoft could sell way more Xbox360s in Japan by releasing a special edition version renamed to SeXBox360 with a decal of some Asian girl tied up and gagged. They love that sort of stuff over there. :)
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|Tentacle controllers.
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|* OK OK IN DEFENCE OF SONY. (Someone has to do it)
(*fine print - I own both a wii and a 360 and do not own a PS3 yet ;)
The 40GB PS3 going for 40,000YEN ($360US) is being released on Nov 11th. This is the reason for the sales slump... I'm sure quite a few people are waiting for this release, though 17,434 regular PS3 units were sold this week in spite of this new release... I would have expected less.
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|Why? The majority probably don't even know the 40GB is coming.
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|Nice! :)
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|Sony has been spreading themselves too thin for quite some time, trying to wage a battle on multiple fronts.
Sony has some really great products... others not so much. Nevertheless, Sony losing to Microsoft (whose marketing in Japan leaves a lot to be desired, to put it mildly) must be quite the wake-up call for them to start focusing on what really matters...
The PlayStation 3 is a game console first and foremost. It's time to get serious and start treating it as such.
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|Sony-son you have brought dishonor to Japan. LOL
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|Nice try with the funny, but you fail. The honorific you're looking for is -san and not -son. Also, it is used to address a person and cannot be applied to a corporation.
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|i am pretty sure he was joking. ease up dude.
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|You are right, he is looking for -san
And it can be applied to a corporation, its still polite non the less
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|oh snap, ac6 is out? must have. im definitely getting a 360 this month. which to buy... which to buy...
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|239 is nothing really to brag about, this article is erroneous.
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|^^^^ hey look at the dumbazz that missed the whole point lol...
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|lol
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|Although it's funny to see Sony finally getting beat on their home turf like this, in the grand scheme of things it's rather insignificant. While Japan is an important console market, world wide sales figures are what really matter. The PS3 is being outsold by both the Wii and Xbox360 world wide, month after month. Even if the Xbox360 never outsells the PS3 in Japan again, the PS3 is still losing every month overall.
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|true, but it doesn't have bluray which is everything to everyone or something. i heard they use they test the potency of the bluray lasers by zapping female babies with them. two birds, one stone.
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|I agree. They are basically fighting for first loser at this point. Nintendo already has Japan pretty much dominated.
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|Hahaha. I heard Blu-Ray enhances your sexual performance. Viagra's color is also "Blu", coincidence?
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|These machines are so cheap anyone can afford to get 2 or all 3. It's quite a wake-up call though, especially if they repeat...
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|I don't think so. That's why you see those idiculous platform wars on BetaNews (ps3/x360/hddvd/blur). Those guys saved up for a year and now they are scared that they bet on the wrong horse...
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|This is why you don't claim victory until actually have victory. This is very embarrassing for Sony.
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|I'm expecting either an apology to Sony or a 'clarification' to the press from Howard within a day.
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|I wonder what Davey will say about this?
"Japan is insignificant" ??
LOL
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|*laughing* omg... I can't wait to see the sony fanboys flaming on this one...
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|Oddly enough, he hasn't said much of anything ever since Toshiba had their incredible sales weekend... not a peep in this one, and nothing in the 'Sony Declares Stalemate' article either so far.
The fact that no one has seen a reply on this many different topics from DaveBG, Ray Dorset, Mark Gillespie, MinuteMaid, Benjamin Linus, Steve Austin, or Joey Deacon means that he has probably been banned.
Poor guy. He should have seen this coming... the rest of us did, and we tried to tell him over and over. :)
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|Either that or he finally decided it was time to save face and run! lol
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|or he got fired heh
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|Sorry for my tardiness, I have been quite depressed of late. My right hand has developed an array of rather stubborn blisters, crippling my ability to respond to your intriguingly wonderful yet often one sided commentary. Be that as it may, rest assured that I continue to sporadically read your posts and enjoy all of your ramblings. It speaks to me as nothing but pure desperation on your part, clinging to some hope or fantasy of some sort of format supremacy when surely the opposite is the truth. Yes, yes obviously all of the news one reads here is in beta form. Perhaps when it is ready for release, the true details will be revealed or perhaps the whole picture. I have been in a special facility during my absence; my room is white and padded and granted the use of a computer once per month. My isolation from tech world has left me hollow and oh no they're coming I have to go I'll be ba
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|lol!!!
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|Well, I have to admit... it just wouldn't be the same without you. :)
Fight the good fight, precious.
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|Uh this has been posted everywhere, give up already.
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|The troll has resurfaced.
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|It's a joke. :)
It's Shadow Marky!
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|You know all the guys in Redmond drove over to Todai for sushi lunch to celebrate this one... or 520 was just busy again. Hard to tell...
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|this is really bad news for sony. this is after a price drop world wide. the xbox has never outsold playstation in japan.
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|I see the comment was edited. Thanks :)
We don't manufacture news here, no matter what people may think :)
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|I think he meant "never before"...
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|the true sony zealot will be quick to point out that the 360 only beats ps3 sales and not the ps3+ps2 sales which somehow makes things ok or some such.
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|"We don't manufacture news here, no matter what people may think :)"
lol don't worry Ed it's not your fault some people like to dream up crap to b**** about.
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