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Japanese Chart for Week Ending 24th December 2006

The weekly chart covers everything, from hardware sales to individual game sales in Japan. From the peek into the next-gen catagory, Sony's system is the clear victor. Even in the 7th week after its launch, PS3 count reaches almost twice as Xbox360's in its 46th week.

Besides this, Sony's both current-gen platforms PS2 and PSP are still selling like hot-cakes, only lagging behind Wii and DS.

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InMyOpinion6344d ago

Could you at least keep your own opinions out of the post? Write it in the commentary section instead, it just looks sh!tty...

specialguest6344d ago (Edited 6344d ago )

damn... that DS has been scorching hot since a year ago and it seems like there's no stopping it. it seems like Nintendo is keeping Nintendo alive and well, meaning most of the platnium sellers are games made by Nintendo. the Wii is also showing huge software numbers too. FINALLY, Nintendo the former king of consoles is back on track. now where's that sequel or remake of Act Raiser?

oke6344d ago

That's a bit of an understatement. To declare a clear victor yet (Sony, anyways) is also a little premature.

Witewunder6343d ago

it would have been a little more accurate to say only slightly ahead of XBox 360 and GBA.

NextGen24Gamer6344d ago

The number one selling hand held is the DS

The number one selling next gen game is Blue Dragon.

This is all in Japan. The 3rd largest market in gaming. With the USA first and Europe 2nd.

Nintendo OWNS Japan big time this time around. The Wii is perfect for that market. Good Job Nintendo...you dethroned your home grown competitor in the video game industry in your territory.

Bhai6343d ago (Edited 6343d ago )

... and you know that. As Reggie himself declared at E3 to the press that if you're here for next-gen, this isn't the place...so why the f**k are you implying that Wii is next-gen ? Wii is only 3 times powerful than PS2. In this way...

Bhai6343d ago

as only PS3 and X360 are the only next-gen machines out there, and PS3 has sold twice as 360 in only 7 weeks as 360 has sold in 55 weeks, such a shame for MS, they couldn't make it this time too. Hah !!!

LuminousAphid6344d ago

How is the PS3 the clear victor with 9.1% when the Wii has nearly three times as much at 25.8%? Do you have some sort of problem with your brain?

Tempo6344d ago

He just can't see around his sony fanboy blinders

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Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider pours scorn on EA's AI dreams.

"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".

LordoftheCritics16h ago

Publishers see gaming as another stock market.

isarai15h ago

I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.

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Phil Spencer and the Battle for Xbox’s Soul

Has the rapid growth of Xbox made the ship too heavy? Following the closures of Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and Roundhouse, we explore what the future of Xbox could look like.

LG_Fox_Brazil20h ago

This ship was never meant to sail, this ship was made from the get go to sink as fast as possible. It almost feels that they want to lower the standards of quality in the industry so that they can fit in

rlow12h ago

I disagree, Xbox from the get go innovated and changed the industry. They did a lot of firsts and standardized a lot of others. It wasn’t till the beginning of the Xbox1 era that things started to go south.

Hedstrom5h ago

Phil wants Xbox to be as soulless as him!

Tacoboto4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Xbox has no soul and Phil has no confidence, and it's impossible to say either do when they killed Tango and Arkane Austin.

Everything they've said since has only made them look worse to a point that they're actually less competent than Embracer.

Markdn4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Whe you release something like the series S and expect it not to hurt your business model, and developers have to have parity with games. Then you know Microsoft don't care. Series s is the final nail that broke developers,

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel1d 21h ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow1d 10h ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo18214h ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie4h ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

Notellin1h ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

OtterX17h ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

Tody_za17h ago(Edited 17h ago)

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno16h ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Inverno14h ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

fsfsxii1h ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

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