Latest Japanese Hardware Sales

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Looks like things are up a bit. Mostly for the Wii. But it's good to see the 360 go up a bit more. If MS can stay up around the 5-10k a week number they'll grow at a good rate for Japan imo. The closer they come to selling 1million units in Japan, the more 3rd party jap devs will support it.

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Man, I just got back from bic camera, a Japanese version of best buy.

I went to the one near Tokyo station. It is probably the biggest electronics store in Japan.

The game consoles were in basement one, so I went down the escalator and was greeted by a HUGE display of PS3s.

Wiis were displayed on the side.

I couldn't see the 360, so I went looking around.

To my astonishment, 360s were displayed on the narrow passageway to the toilet.

I swear, MS has monkeys running the marketing in Japan.

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George P Global Moderator

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Hardly, They have all those PS3 sitting in stock that they "really" need to sell. So what do you do if you run the store? You can't have those ps3s you paid for sitting there collecting dust right?

Now i'm sure MS can do a better job of getting stores to show the 360, but in the end it's up to the store manager.

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George P Global Moderator

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Some new games are probably out I bet. I don't fallow the DS/PSP side of things. It's looking like the 360 is sticking around the 8k a week number, which isn't great but better than 2k a week like before. Maybe it'll slowly go up into 10k and higher with more Japanese targeted games.

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Numbers finally updated:

December 24 - 30

DSL - 218,876

PSP - 161,370

Wii - 152,209

PS3 - 52,706

PS2 - 25,569

Xbox360 - 8,304

GC - 67

GBASP - 61

GBM - 58

DS - 18

GBA - 17

Wow, those numbers felt like forever hehe.

Bloody hell, check them out though! Everyone's doing well!

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George P Global Moderator

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MS still sticking up around 8k a week. Not great, but good for Japan imo. With a better marketing push and more games maybe they'll break into 10K+ a week and stay there. Maybe another price cut will do it.

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Andrew Lyle Global Moderator

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MS still sticking up around 8k a week. Not great, but good for Japan imo. With a better marketing push and more games maybe they'll break into 10K+ a week and stay there. Maybe another price cut will do it.

Doesnt Japan already pay LESS then then any other country for xbox360?

Too bad they can't get over that 10,000 mark huh...

and about time PS3 beats it's older, lesser brother, PS2. Sad to see the successor taking so long to beat out PS2

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George P Global Moderator

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iirc Japan pays like, if you work out the conversion rates, maybe around $380? Or is it down around $360? Either way, the dollar/Yen rate is always changing, so it probably costs MORE now since the dollar has fallen more vs the Yen last I saw.

I still think 8k a week is good, you have to remember the original Xbox was pretty much stuck doing 1-2k a week forever. If the 360 can get a few more big name games out and up sales over 10k a week, that's enough imo. It's true it's not great like 30-50k a week, but for the outsider/underdog. 10k+ is like a magic mark.

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