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Charts: Japan hearts Kingdom Hearts Comments by Robert Purchese

12 June, 2009

Sales down, newcomers scarce.

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TheStatics
12/06/09 @ 13:29
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Edited as I'm supremely thick!

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davisorle
12/06/09 @ 13:55
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Only thing interesting out of the sales is that in Japan all hardware sales went down except the 360's. How come?
mashk
12/06/09 @ 14:18
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360 sales are up! Woohoo!
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12/06/09 @ 14:20
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@davisorle

The market is possibly starting to reach saturation point for the other consoles; as in an awful lot of Wiis and PS3 have been sold in Japan leaving fewer and fewer people who still want one but bugger all 360s have been sold there.
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12/06/09 @ 15:18
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Those figures of 3:1 PS3:360 are still pretty amazing for the 360 in the region compared to the last generation (but they're still pretty hopeless as a whole).

I'd disagree that the PS3 is anywhere near saturation, only the saturation for this price point. Drop that and I think that they will get a lot more interest.
miiiguel
12/06/09 @ 15:20
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"Only thing interesting out of the sales is that in Japan all hardware sales went down except the 360's. How come? "

My bet: E3 and the Milo Effect. Japanese dig that sort of thing.
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12/06/09 @ 15:21
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I'd disagree that the PS3 is anywhere near saturation, only the saturation for this price point. Drop that and I think that they will get a lot more interest.

Definitely, drop the price in any region and the sales will increase but at this price point and coming into the summer I'm not surprised to see it drop off.
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12/06/09 @ 16:04
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"Those figures of 3:1 PS3:360 are still pretty amazing for the 360 in the region compared to the last generation"

Primarily because it's the wrong comparison to make relative to last gen though: PS3 isn't exactly setting Japan on fire as the PS2 did. So they've gained against Sony but lost a lot of ground to Nintendo.

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