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Looks to be one of those Japanese anime style games with scantily clad, very young looking girls. I guess Microsoft finally figured out what sells there.

Bingo!

On another note, nothing like a new Gundam game to help sell systems. God do they love that series to death.

very nice figure from PS3.

Well Famitsu think the FF13 release number will be 500k!

Final Fantasy XIII Could Move Another Half Million PS3s In Japan

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The Japanese release of Final Fantasy XIII might just do wonders for the PlayStation 3 in Japan, if the president of Famitsu publisher Enterbrain knows what he's talking about. A massive marquee game moving consoles? What you talkin' 'bout, Hamamura?

Look, that's what Enterbrain prez Hirokazu Hamamura said at today's Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, according to Bloomberg Japan and by way of Andriasang. And it doesn't seem unreasonable, considering the PlayStation 3 just sold 150,000-plus units in a week on the strength of a price drop and the release of yet another Gundam game.

Square Enix and Sony's plans for a PS3 bundle with Final Fantasy XIII packed in is sure to help that number, which, for the record, would represent about 15% of the PS3's sales to date in Japan.

Final Fantasy XIII will ship on December 17th in Japan, a date just recently confirmed by PlayStation overlord Kaz Hirai. Whether Hamamura believes that will all happen in the calendar year 2009, we're not sure, but that might be pushing it.

Source: http://kotaku.com/5359219/final-fantasy-xi...n-ps3s-in-japan

edit: Gran Turismo 5 is also suppose to be hitting in December as well!

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September 7 - 13

Hardware

DSi - 66,498

PS3 - 55,344

PSP - 18,375

Wii - 17,568

DSL - 11,179

360 - 7,568

PS2 - 2,612

Software

1. [NDS] Pokemon Soul Silver - 723,000

2. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold - 720,000

3. [NDS] Tomodachi Collection - 74,000

4. [NDS] Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Starry Sky - 37,000

5. [PS3] Kidou Senshi Gundam Senki: Lost War Chronicles - 33,000

6. [WII] Wii Sports Resort - 32,000

7. [NDS] Love Plus - 22,000

8. [WII] Monster Hunter 3 - 15,000

9. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2 G - 13,000

10. [PSP] MAPLUS Portable Navigator 3 - 12,000

September 14 - 20

Hardware

DSi - 66,073

PS3 - 51,055

PSP - 21,073

Wii - 16,698

DSL - 13,555

360 - 4,965

PS2 - 2,723

Software

01. [NDS] Pokemon Soul Silver - 222,579

02. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold - 220,554

03. [PS3] Tales of Vesperia - 216,593

04. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakkyou Portable 4 - 104,377

05. [NDS] SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu Goddess of Destiny - 91,547

06. [NDS] Tomodachi Collection - 72,629

07. [PSP] Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Tag Force 4 - 50,697

08. [PSP] Ys Seven - 33,349

09. [NDS] Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Starry Sky - 32,603

10. [NDS] Idolmaster: Dearly Stars - 30,786

September 21 - 27

Hardware

DSi - 63,342

PS3 - 39,960

PSP - 17,334

DSL - 15,057

Wii - 11,731

360 - 4,854

PS2 - 2,347

Software

1. [NDS] Tomodachi Collection - 97,000

2. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold - 68,000

3. [NDS] Pokemon Soul Silver - 64,000

4. [PS3] Tales of Vesperia - 49,000

5. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 4 - 42,000

6. [WII] Wii Sports Resort - 36,000

7. [NDS] SaGa 2 Legendary Secret Treasure: Goddess of Destiny - 32,000

8. [NDS] Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Starry Sky - 30,000

9. [360] Halo 3: ODST - 30,000

10. [PSP] Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Tag Force 4 - 14,000

So much for the slim I guess. Though the initial pop was good, it's looking like it's dropping back down to where it was with every week. I wouldn't be surprised if it's under 30k next time.

^

All actual home consoles have been selling bad in Japan for ages, Japan has pretty much turned into the country of portable gaming.

PS3 outsells Wii in Japan for September; thanks Slim!

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What do we know about Japan? Even after those weird commercials, the PlayStation 3 has managed to outsell the Wii in Japan following the (what you might call) successful launch of the newly "encheapened" PS3 Slim. Japanese market research firm Enterbrain estimates that from August 31 through September 27 309,939 PS3s were sold; a new monthly record for the console.

If you've been following our weekly Japanese Hardware Sales updates, this is no surprise to you. The usually dominant DSi and DS Lite combo sold a combined 297,060 units, which came alarmingly close to the Sony record, considering the 7,350 percent boost the PS3 saw post-Slim. It's notable that this Bloomberg report doesn't even list the Wii's monthly sales; however, with Nintendo's Wii at ?20,000 (down from ?25,000) starting this month, we imagine next month's chart will look a little different.

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/02/ps3-outs...er-thanks-slim/

That's one way to look at it. Yet the PSP started off **** poor, and only picked up later on, though even now that's down. It's been Nintendo all the way in Japan. It's nice to try and spin it to make it sound like weak console sales in Japan are because there is a shift to portable devices, yet that doesn't account for the Wii's huge success or the PS2s last gen? Portables where around then as well.

While the initial boost to PS3 sales for Sept are nice, it doesn't seem to me that it was all the work of the slim. Price cut yes, but more so the release of a few big names also probably did more of the work. Software always, and still does, sells hardware in the end. If the slim was released back in a boring month with no games to back it you would have probably seen a even smaller/shorter spike in sales.

Not to say that 309k for the month isn't good, it is, but it's not holding up from the looks of it. If/when sales for the PS3 drop yet again to the levels it was pre-slim, what will Sony have to do next? They already cut the price.

That's one way to look at it. Yet the PSP started off **** poor, and only picked up later on, though even now that's down. It's been Nintendo all the way in Japan. It's nice to try and spin it to make it sound like weak console sales in Japan are because there is a shift to portable devices, yet that doesn't account for the Wii's huge success or the PS2s last gen? Portables where around then as well.

While the initial boost to PS3 sales for Sept are nice, it doesn't seem to me that it was all the work of the slim. Price cut yes, but more so the release of a few big names also probably did more of the work. Software always, and still does, sells hardware in the end. If the slim was released back in a boring month with no games to back it you would have probably seen a even smaller/shorter spike in sales.

Not to say that 309k for the month isn't good, it is, but it's not holding up from the looks of it. If/when sales for the PS3 drop yet again to the levels it was pre-slim, what will Sony have to do next? They already cut the price.

FF13 and FF13 branded PS3.

FF13 and FF13 branded PS3.

IF they take a page out of the MS playbook and release specific branded PS3 hardware (not just a game bundle with a normal slim), then that speaks volumes imo.

IF they take a page out of the MS playbook and release specific branded PS3 hardware (not just a game bundle with a normal slim), then that speaks volumes imo.

Like this one announced at TGS? :p

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Famitsu isn't as spot on accurate as the numbers AlphaPrime usually posts though.

Media Create's coverage rate is around 57%.

http://www.m-create.com/biz/data.html

Famitsu's coverage rate is over 80% for console and 60% for the PC market.

http://www.f-ism.net/fmds/index.html

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