Japan charts: Dragon Quest IX rules roost
While Xbox 360 moves above PS3.
Dragon Quest IX has mustered 126,682 sales to soar back to the top of the Japanese chart, according to Media Create data for the week ending 16th August.
Its performance helps DSi and DS Lite combine to 95,857 units sold, which is just over double that of the nearest challenger Wii, which sold 47,732 consoles.
Wii champion Monster Hunter Tri holds on at four and hits a lifetime milestone of 750,000 units.
DS game Tomodachi Collection (Friend Collection) takes two this week, followed by Wii Sports Resort at three and SD Gundam G Generation Wars (PS2) at five.
The PSP is Japan's third most popular console with 39,882 units sold. Fourth, surprisingly, is Xbox 360 with 9162 consoles shifted. PS3 and PS2 are almost neck-and-neck with 5994 and 4907 units sold, respectively.
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You didn't read his post, did you.
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Shoot first, read post later ...
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Or then again.. maybe there have not been any games available that people want for PS3.
I see shelf space for Wii and DS in Japan. Almost nothing for 360 and PS3.
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Because the retail is cleaning out the stock of old PS3s to make room for the Slim.
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You really believe every retarded comment you make don't you?
Working in retail myself it's pretty clear Sony have depleted stocks of current PS3's to make way for the slim. We haven't had a single PS3 in stock for about 2 weeks now.
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"I see shelf space for Wii and DS in Japan. Almost nothing for 360 and PS3. "
Thats not what I see. All stores I go into have solid sections for the PS3/360. Nintendo usually has better positioning, but the presence of the other two is respectable.
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If by respectable you mean four times smaller than yes.
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There certainly is no property that MS controls that has anything like the same pedigree as a box-shifter in that territory. So its hard to see how they can make any further headway in the region.
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Regretably Farticus Maximus was, and in all likelyhood still is a total fucking moron. He trolled for reasons best known to himself, and was usually an unwelcome presense. If you've got an interesting point to make, please make it. But we get that you don't like the PS3, and, as you can probably tell by your ratings, we're not fucking interested.
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It was advertised on a number of sites about two weeks ago (even with Pictures
Of course if after the release date for the slim the PS3 sales are still as bad as the Xbox, then please rant away, but use a bit of common sense first.
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360 - Probably selling as MS expected it do, not great but an improvement on the Xbox (what wouldn't have been!).
PS3 - So far, I've no doubt Sony are massively down on where they thought they would be.
Wii - Exceeded all expectations I'm sure.
I know the Japanese like their gadgets but I think it will be stretching it to suggest that the new slim model will have a revolutionary impact on PS3 sales.
Note - I have a 360 and PS3 and have previously owned a Wii... Just before I get some ill-informed anger aimed towards me!
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Farticus actually put me off joining EG, and i joined after i presumed he was perma banned. I'm not happy hes still here to be honest. Seems you can troll and insult anyone and the mods are like "whatever"
However don't counter him (or the other ft trolls) with insults, or you lose the highground somewhat.
Edit. Lol im getting negative karma. Whodda thunkit?
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Bah im out of this.
On Topic. Those are slow numbers for all again. Luckily Japan is apparently out of recession, so maybe things will pick up.
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Getting a few negative votes is one thing, getting 5,10,15 or more negative votes - that's a clear indication that your opinion simply isn't interesting to anyone else than maybe your mother or any of your fellow trolls.
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The rating of comments seems to have encouraged some good discussion on here and hidden the majority of the crap. If people could stop down rating people simply because they disagree with the comment that would be good too - it's really not meant to work like that.
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Lol!
I actually laffed out loud at his brazen immature post, doesnt seem fair that people picks on apparent X360 fans and yet we do need to treat all kind of trollings in the same way?
This article is not the domain of PS3 but as its affect everyone and therefore open to all of different denominations!
Games is where its all at, and there are going to be plenty to come on X360 and PS3 and to declare one or other dead is premature at this point of time, both now have 20 millions plus following. DONT discard them all.
Xbot fanboys doesnt need to blather anything as the stats stands for themselves, Sony and Sony fans would never imagine the situation as we are in now 3 or so years ago. Would have been impossible to swallow but yet we still got lots of positive from this kind of break even market share.
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Well I'm going off what was written on a number of gaming sites with images of no stock pictures. Of course this is the internet and I dont live in Japan, so I cannot confirm it and it could just be all rubbish.. of course if you have any more evidence to suggest otherwise it would be better to say why rather than just the "not true"
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available in every big name store? well, bic camera and yodobashi camera were both sold out, and they don't get much bigger than that. you could pick them up from a few stores in den den town, but most only had used stock. bic camera used to have a big display with all 3 colours of PS3 (black/white/silver) but took it down like a month ago.
as my guy above me says, you can't just say things like that based on nothing. i got evidence, man, i seen it with mine own eyes.
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Jesus Christ, is it really that hard to work out that with the PS3 slim being announced for release in a few weeks, people are going to hold off buying a 'fat' PS3 and wait a short while, thus resulting in a temporary dip in sales?
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Surely if they they are that concerned with the size of the consoles, they will notice that that it's the same size footprint on your desk, just slimmer. It's obviously going to give Sony a boost when it arrives, but Im not sure how long that will last.
I wonder if MS have a smaller SKU planned, they can shrink their board further than Sony can, especially since Valhalla is the next revision in line with the GPU and CPU on a single chip (CELL needs more die space on its own anyway as far as the CPUs go and I doubt we will see them putting both CELL on RSX on the same chip any time soon). If it was significantly smaller than the PS3 slim, we would see for sure how important the bulk of the console is to the Japanese market.
It could be that it's too little too late for both PS3 and 360 in Japan now though. Unless they are getting bored of their Wiis.
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But whatever reason makes people happy is fine by me...