Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan News

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Fight!, Fight for those scraps!

bloody hell, never really thought that would happen.

goes to show what a big RPG release can do for you in japan, microsoft are gonna be kicking themselves next winter for not paying enough cash to buy out the full exclusive deal for final fantasty.

should imagine the ps3 will clean up in japan with 13 and versus 13 being exclusive

Afrika will really be that big in Japan? Why?

@Whatsfor

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"Afrika will really be that big in Japan? Why? "

Japanese love photography, they also love videogames. Therefore videogame about photography = win?

"Afrika will really be that big in Japan? Why?"

Because everything else is really small?

Afrika Japanese TV commercial

Its a small (mostly insignificant) victory but a victory none the less. True when FFXIII comes out the PS3 sales are gonna be huge i reckon but that the japs are giving in and buying 360's will be making Microsoft very happy. One console in one persons house with a top notch game on show can do alot to converting that persons friends....

>Afrika will really be that big in Japan? Why?

Sarcasm.

Anyway.. the 360 has outsold the PS3 before (Blue Dragon I think). JRPGs seem to do the trick for the 360 in Japan... but it is only to a few that regard the 360 as a cult console. Basically the 360 and PS3 are face down in the gutter in Japan. I wonder if the new stream of JRPGs on both HD consoles will be able to lift them back above the almighty Nintendo. Very unlikely IMHO.

des - did that ad for Afrika just show a guy and his son falling asleep while playing it? Awesome marketing!!!!

Afrika will be released on Playstation 3, but when will Playstation 3 be released in Africa?
We need the sales numbers for Africa! Who wins the race there?

@Buztafen

Yes it did.
Game is apparently targeting people that suffer from insomnia...

I really, really want to get Afrika, just to play it with my son - not a lot of relaxing yet interesting games out there. I think the niche is brilliant. I hope they'll reconcider and release it here. But then there's the import option, I guess.

Good to see that the Xbox does have potential in japan too; but they do have to offer different games from what they do in the states to be successful. Evidently it is the other way around in the US: native games such as Halo and that "football" title they've got ver there now will do well, but japanese titles (like all the ninty stuff) will do amazingly fantastic off-the-charts etc well.

Here in Europe it seems we enjoy pretty much everything in equal amounts, except the extremely local niches such as hentai games about tentacle rape and weird sports titles about nerfed rugby. No particular penchant for local games, exept you count "soccer" games, of course, which is pretty much a global phenomenon I would like to think.

"The 360 will fall right back to sub 5k sales per week right after Tales of Vesperia is a long forgotten memory. "

I'll make sure it says Hi to your beloved PS3 on the way down.

EDIT: Spelling

"The 360 will fall right back to sub 5k sales per week right"
yes, at least that good news, beacuse our alter-egos Japanese-kids aren't getting much PS3's either...

@SpaceMidget75

Don't forget to make sure it says Hi to the PS2 aswell :)

I thought I was on ignore?!?

@Olemak
Are you implying that MS/Sony should do more tentacle rape games to conquer the Japanese market?

It should also say hi to Your Mom while it's down there.

Seriously, guys, grow up.

I look through my ignore list once in a while and if I have forgotten why you were ignorerd I un-ignore. This must be a big moment for you?

^ I read your comment fast and it looked "ignorance list"... funny.

Seriously, Olemak, jog on.

I'm pretty sure I only have to call you a cock-knocker or something and you'll put me straight back on ignore.

No personal insults like that dont get you on (it actually made me smile), I cant remember what it was and I cant be bothered to trawl through past posts to find out.

Quite why Blig felt the need to chip in at the 360 there I don't know...

Contrast that one week of decent sales in Japan with the PS3 (marginally) outselling the 360 during the first 7 months of 2008 ... :D

Still, you never know when the 360 will make that massive breakthrough causing the floodgates in Japan to open ... .

"red control the floodgate core"

/oh the voices inside my head!/

I have everyone on ignore.


First!

LOL

"Quite why Blig felt the need to chip in at the 360 there I don't know..."

Because any news relating to 360 in a positive manner (no matter how slight) seems to bother him. As to why that is, is anyone's guess.

But is Tales of Vesperia region free? The U.S. version that comes next week better be because I can't wait for stupid translations.

Why is everyone having a do at blig? I would agree with his post, as would all of you or else you would have corrected him.

I mean SOMETIMES it seems we are all able to communicate without flying the flag of a particular console, and not singling out Blerk because I've seen enough people inflict their intelligence in any thread that is vaguely PS3 related too, but was that really any value there.

Christ, I think we were all expecting this chart news based on the comments from last week.

The post came across with a "yeah yeah well well the 360 will be outsold next week so stick that up your trumpet" amount of spite to it.

So it wasn't what he said, it was the way he said it? lol

So it wasn't what he said, it was the way he said it? lol

@mcbi4kh2

nope....it was that he said it at all :)
no point really

and the fact he doesn't say anything else but that. ever.

So again, no one has anything to counter his argument.

Just that he dared to say it all. Okay, lesson learned.

and the fact he doesn't say anything else but that. ever.
He always talks about japenese 360 sales? Strange.

If PS3 outsells Wii during Africa release I'll seriously laught :)

and the fact he doesn't say anything else but that. ever.
He always talks about japenese 360 sales? Strange.

@mcbi4kh2

errmmm....and you can be a dumbass and a smart ass in one sentence :)

He always talks about japenese 360 sales? Strange.

Come on. Don't pretend to be this dense. You're not.

Please, mcbi4kh2, don't defend him.
Blig_merk is always trolling at 360 news, previews or reviews. ALWAYS.

@mcbi4kh2 :

blig_merk
19-Aug-08 11:31:10 I think Rare could have just done away with the pointless tying to the Banjo Kazooie franchise as this has nothing to do with it whatsoever.

It's like a scrap from the table for those XBOXers that are jealous of LBP, a game that lets you build vehicles to solve puzzles.

Rare have been very much off the boil since bought by MS, and anyone expecting this to be anything other than average is going to be stunningly disappointed.

I say *YAWN*.



blig_merk
11-Aug-08 14:15:52 XerX3: i find it sad that every time a new 360 model is announced, everyone wants to know whether it's a more reliable version than the last.

Says a lot for peoples confidence in their favourite product...

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blig_merk
15-Aug-08 14:06:12 I love the spin these 360 owners are putting on here. Still, being next to last in a TV console war is better than being dead last.

Beating an 8 year old console thats on its last legs and sold 140 million is such a triumph!
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no, he always bangs on about reasons why the 360 is shit... no real direction other than to spout console war fodder. I have no time for it in either direction.

Whenever I see people spouting on in the PS3 threads with the same old tired generic cliches, I think "thank christ there is no-one doing this in the other direction" and then comes a post by Blig.

I mean is there a platinum rophy for winning the console war on a comments thread? 12 months free gold live subscription?

@DjFlux
That was unintentional, usually I will just land on the dumb arse side. Note the correct spelling, an ass is a donkey. We are not in America DjFlux.

@miguell

All very interesting I'm sure but completely and utterly irelevant to his post in this thread.

So again, no one has anything to counter his argument.

Ofcourse not. It's stating the obvious.
It's just getting really, really old.

^ but... I feel more confortable with "center" rather then with "centre".