Media Create Hardware Sales 10/29 - 11/4

BLaZiN PRopHeT - 778 days 2 hours ago

so is this the start of a trend? i looked at what the 360 has for the end of the year and they could be sitting around the 10k market in November/December each week.

Edit: @2 what about Lost Odyssey?

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sonarus - 778 days 2 hours ago

i doubt it. Only exclusive game they have left is mass effect and the effect of that will be short lived in japan. Ace combat really played out well for msoft i dnt remember them selling this much even with eternal sonata

Wasnt lost odyssey pushed back to next yr?

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Spike47 - 778 days 2 hours ago

when does the ps3 price drop become effective.

this is exactly what I mean, if the ps3 can just keep sales close to the 360 in amerca,it will do just fine.

cause it outsells the 360 in almost all other countries.

basically the 360 won last montlhy hardware sales because halo3, and halo3 did most of the damage in Amercia where the difference in sales were more than 70k I think.

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Meus Renaissance - 778 days 2 hours ago

Logically speaking its foolish to claim this will be the start of a trend. Naturally, the additional price cuts coupled with the bundling of the console with one of the most popular titles in Asia will no doubt cause a significant boost in sales.

Historically the console used to sell 1-3K a week, so this is almost a x6 time fold in those sales. I'm sure it'll sell well but I expect this figure to decrease over time, and certainly lag behind Sony with their pending price cut on their machine.

Still a fantastic week for Microsoft.

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solar - 778 days 2 hours ago

everyone sold a lot of ? marks last month...

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DrWan - 778 days 2 hours ago

This is the sale of where exactly?

This can't be Japan, because the Xbox number is too high. Is this american sales number?? But if you go to the source it's all written in Japanese.

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Spike47 - 778 days 1 hour ago

in trouble.

the xbox360 had a price drop I beleive and a couple of other things I think that gave it such a boost.

remember the ps3 still has titles like mgs4 that are gonna boost ps3 sales in japan ALOT.

did sony announce a price drop for japan?

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Spike47 - 778 days 1 hour ago

obviously if a price drop is coming in a few days, people hold out on buying ps3s and wait for the price drop.

So actually, a price drop does'nt help that much before it becomes effective does it?

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Meus Renaissance - 778 days 1 hour ago

We have to monitor weekly and monthly sales of this before we can hint that Sony is in trouble. I don't think they are and I doubt even TheMart or anyone of the Green side would come here and proclaim anything.

It's far too early.

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PirateThom - 778 days 1 hour ago

Congrats, Sony, the one place you were almost guaranteed to sell more than 360 week by week and it's gone.

Well done.

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jinn - 778 days 1 hour ago

it's all about the media

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ParaDise_LosT - 778 days 1 hour ago

say Ps3 was 18-22k and xboxwas 16k in Media Create?

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resistance100 - 778 days 1 hour ago

Is the wii, its had really its biggest game launched and only had a slight increase in sales considering the size of the game (SMG), and also sold alot less copies than i thought it would, i suspected that it would reach the 500K mark in its first week, it barely managed half of that.

Where does that leave wii now? Is the 'fad' (if people still call it that) over? Or is it people just waiting for the hoilday season to kick in

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Reanimator - 778 days ago

I have been following these threads for a few months, and have never posted.

I have been amused by all you kids and young adults, making such grandiose predictions, based on a few years of experience. I know all of you are not under 16 (even though your posts scream otherwise), but even those in your 20’s know and have experienced very little in this industry.

I have been a gamer since the days of Pinball machines (a nickel a play), which became Arcade Games (a quarter a play), which became home console Video Games ($30 a cart). Now I realize that most of you know next to nothing about this industry before the late 80's - early 90's. For that reason I forgive you for thinking that Sony and/or Nintendo invented this industry. WRONG!!! The video game industry was invented by ATARI, an American company! Back in the 70's the first videogame war was between Atari and Mattel (Intellivision). Later the ColecoVision, the Vectrex, and the Magnavox Odessey were released. Look up the real history to learn what caused the videogame crash, because its a little too lengthy to recount here. Anyway, my point is by the time Nintendo and SEGA started the 2nd age of the industry, and the second videogame war, all we Americans had to choose from were Japanese game systems, with Japanese games, created by Japanese developers, with Japanese tastes in mind. Gamers were led to believe that these were what games were supposed to be. . Yeah, we had the 3D0 experiment (American) but they could not compete..., too expensive and ahead of its time. (But if you were around then, you may have noticed the 3D0 games were DIFFERENT, then the typical Japanese games. We had a taste of the “new” western-style games to come 20 years later. 3D0 and Trip Hawkins eventually became Electronic Arts, and the American Sports games genre appeared)

After the Nintendo (NES-SuperNintendo) / SEGA (Master system-Genesis) wars came the Playstation. Everyone questioned if SONY could compete with the industry giants (Nintendo/SEGA), they succeded and the rest is history. However, the majority of the games being played were still the Japanese-style! Now fast-forward to the present day. Microsoft, an American company, creates the XBox, tailors it to western tastes, and jumps into the fray. They took a bath, and lost tons of money (which they expected), just to make a name. Then came the 360. Everyone in the media expected the PS3 to, on day 1, wipe the 360 from the scene. How can they miss??? They sold how many hundred millions of PS1s, and PS2s??? It’s a sure thing, they said. A slam-dunk!!!

But something strange happened….!

Things are different now. For the past 20 years, American have only had Japanese games to choose from (Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, Mario, etc...), sequel after sequel... you hear every day from PS3 fans: "just wait until MGS come out", "wait until FF comes out", “Ratchet and Clank will rule the world”, etc... Those days are over. We now have other game genres to choose from, the Japanese gametype, so popular in Japan, is not the hot thing over here anymore. The real reason that the Marios, Metal Gears, the Final Fantasys, etc… sold millions of copies, the reason the spikey-hair, huge sword carrying, fireball throwing, dragon riding, turtle-hopping games were so popular, the reason “everyone just assumed the PS3 would wipe everything else off the planet is simple. Those were the only gametypes available!! That's why the PS3 is not selling like hotcakes! Sure, it will sell, but the competition is not just new hardware. We now have a real choice in SOFTWARE, and we are not all blindly choosing Japanese. Millions of us are choosing American. Call it what you want, but those coveted, precious sequels you young PS3 fans are panting for are not going to be the system sellers that you are so convinced they will be. You will a kid when you were first exposed to videogames, you grew up playing them, and that’s all you knew. The reason the 360 does not sell well in Japan? It’s not Japanese!!!! The reason the 360 sells so well in the US? It’s American!!! Think about it. And look at how all the predicted Japanese smash hits have fizzeled, selling mediocre numbers. Look at how the Japanese developers are lusting after the American market. Selling in Japan is not the “Holy Grail” anymore!! There's a new sheriff in town. The industry has changed. Get with the program.

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JokesOnYou - 777 days 23 hours ago

ps3 had a price drop in Japan on Oct. 17th so why are sonykids acting as if sony hasn't also cut their price in Japan, only the 40gig ps3 has not been released in Japan (release date is Nov. 11th)

http://www.i4u.com/article1...
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-...
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/20...

so these ps3 sales are also right after ps3 price drop, WOW! more salt in the wound for sonykids, pa pa please dont hurt yourselves, ha ha this is so funny watching the haters pull their humungous left foot out of their mouth=

JOY

vvvvvvv aawwww, looks like I hit a nerve, lmfao!

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zslash - 777 days 23 hours ago

The PSP is selling a lot of hardware each week but not selling many games. Not a single PSP game made it into the top ten this week, but 59,000+ units sold o_O ? Strange...

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x440Magnumx - 777 days 20 hours ago

Must like it for the Wi-Fi cheaper than the iPhone or iPod touch, I guess.

Japan is a weird market, and I really don't think it matters like it used to.

When a good week for Japan is the PS3 and 360 selling around 17,000 consoles it puts it into light.

In the American market a console is considered doomed and laughed at currently if it sells less than 100k units.

California (if not Cali definitely the West Coast) itself probably sells about the nearly the same amount of PS3/360 consoles as Japan.

Focusing on Japan is a lost cause...titles no one cares about in the 8 times bigger market sell at the top of the charts...it's too quirky and unpredictable.

And the United States and the UK/Europe are much more in line with their preferences than the UK/Europe is with Japan.

It's dangerous to focus on Japan because unless its a cult classic that was previously ported over and caught on over here (Final Fantasy, Gran Turismo, Mario, MGS, etc.), you'll be working harder for a much smaller share of the market.

Sure the 360 is doing poorly in Japan, but when markets which combine to be more than 10 times greater than Japan disagree, why try to please Japan?

Nintendo is doing well in both markets because they're gadgety enough with the motion sensor and have enough really quirky Japanese style games to please the Japanese, and they're casual and cheap enough to do well in the other markets, appealing to non-gamers.

As a real gaming machine, trying to please the Japanese market would do more damage to the 360 than it would reap rewards.

Not even Sony, a Japanese company, has focused on the Japanese market as much as they have the others.

I think Japan is about pride, because much of gaming from Nintendo's early days and Sony's middle days originated there. Microsoft has an interest in Japan because they want to win over some of Japan's developers (Think MGS.) If Japan weren't the trendy technological center of the Eastern world it wouldn't be important to anybody. It's trends certainly aren't influencing the US market at the moment, except for the fact that the cheaper, more casual (i.e. geared to non-gamers) Wii is leading sales.

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