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It is percieved that the Xbox is about as welcome as a big wet fart in Japan, well ACCORDING to sales figures.
Yes these sales figures, saying, pretty much, that Xbox sells around 4,000 a week, GC around 15,000 and PS2 at 75,000.
Hmmm, 75000? A bit much? I think so.
Why? Well, while leafing though an old PS2 mag in my Bedroom(it had a MGS2 video with it) It came to a section based around Japan. It says, that during the Launch period for the PS2 in Japan, Sony managed to shift an unthinkable abount of 200, 000 in 3 weeks. Impressive you think.
Well if going buy current sales figures, sony sell 225,000 every 3 weeks, which has to be a lie. 75000 people buying a PS2, well over 2 years into its life, in the middle if the summer?!?
No, that must be wrong. Consoles sell the most at launch, due to hype and antisipation of owning the next cool bit of gaming hardware. You all know how Hyped the PS2 was, how on earth can the PS2 be outselling what it did at launch.
Japan loves games, but as a games market its now smaller than the US and all European countries combined. Its also shrinking but the European and US markets are rapidly expanding.
I wholy accept that the Xbox is doing poor in Japan, but I do question who on earth composes the figures and just how much Sony really is selling.
Yes these sales figures, saying, pretty much, that Xbox sells around 4,000 a week, GC around 15,000 and PS2 at 75,000.
Hmmm, 75000? A bit much? I think so.
Why? Well, while leafing though an old PS2 mag in my Bedroom(it had a MGS2 video with it) It came to a section based around Japan. It says, that during the Launch period for the PS2 in Japan, Sony managed to shift an unthinkable abount of 200, 000 in 3 weeks. Impressive you think.
Well if going buy current sales figures, sony sell 225,000 every 3 weeks, which has to be a lie. 75000 people buying a PS2, well over 2 years into its life, in the middle if the summer?!?
No, that must be wrong. Consoles sell the most at launch, due to hype and antisipation of owning the next cool bit of gaming hardware. You all know how Hyped the PS2 was, how on earth can the PS2 be outselling what it did at launch.
Japan loves games, but as a games market its now smaller than the US and all European countries combined. Its also shrinking but the European and US markets are rapidly expanding.
I wholy accept that the Xbox is doing poor in Japan, but I do question who on earth composes the figures and just how much Sony really is selling.
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Although sales are poor at the moment, its predicted to pick up when Xbox live is released of in Jap land.
Japanese Developers are quite intrested in microsofts machine, and around 30-40 developers (jap devs) are making games for the console.
Steel Battalion (Tekki) seems to be cathing on over there...
Japanese Developers are quite intrested in microsofts machine, and around 30-40 developers (jap devs) are making games for the console.
Steel Battalion (Tekki) seems to be cathing on over there...
Strafex wrote:
> Then again, seeing as some of the worlds greatest devellopers come
> from Japan - Sega, Capcom, Konami etc...
> Might their support falter if the console isn't doing so great in
> their territory?
well maybe and maybe not. i suspect that it depends on what market the game is aimed at. i mean i doubt very much they'd not bother realeasing a game in there own territory as it's not really big enough.
they could always make it multi-format i guess.
it's one of the reasons i'm keeping my PS2 as it has good jap support obviously.
they'll soon crack though and all buy x box's LOL.
> Then again, seeing as some of the worlds greatest devellopers come
> from Japan - Sega, Capcom, Konami etc...
> Might their support falter if the console isn't doing so great in
> their territory?
well maybe and maybe not. i suspect that it depends on what market the game is aimed at. i mean i doubt very much they'd not bother realeasing a game in there own territory as it's not really big enough.
they could always make it multi-format i guess.
it's one of the reasons i'm keeping my PS2 as it has good jap support obviously.
they'll soon crack though and all buy x box's LOL.
Then again, seeing as some of the worlds greatest devellopers come from Japan - Sega, Capcom, Konami etc...
Might their support falter if the console isn't doing so great in their territory?
Might their support falter if the console isn't doing so great in their territory?
it's not a prob if the x box doesn't do all that bad in Japan. Japan isn't really that big, the market most consoles try and break is the US and the X Box has that easily.
shame though as a western console doing well in japan would be nice for a change.
shame though as a western console doing well in japan would be nice for a change.
A PS2 ? More likes PS2's mate. ;-))
They must have one in every room. ;-))
They must have one in every room. ;-))
Silent85 wrote:
> it all depends on the source for all we know sony or ninty could be
> giving pay off's
>
>
> Even microsoft might :P
Like the 10/10 Halo score they trumpeted?
In the back of NGC mag are Jap GC games - They are the zaniest ever. They sell too. Airtraffic Controller. Hamster BLA BLA BLA (basicly a fancy tamagotchi)
Still. I have to agree. At the rate of 75,000 a week and a population of 120,000,000, a lot must have a PS2.
> it all depends on the source for all we know sony or ninty could be
> giving pay off's
>
>
> Even microsoft might :P
Like the 10/10 Halo score they trumpeted?
In the back of NGC mag are Jap GC games - They are the zaniest ever. They sell too. Airtraffic Controller. Hamster BLA BLA BLA (basicly a fancy tamagotchi)
Still. I have to agree. At the rate of 75,000 a week and a population of 120,000,000, a lot must have a PS2.
Yeah - the Japanese prefer games that require them to go around chatting up anime girls. ;-))
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