Japanese hardware sales, Oct. 29 - Nov. 4: Once in a life cycle edition

It's official! the PS3 is last place in all regions.

Go PSP! Hang in there! Its been hovering at around 60 thousand for about a month now.

As for the 360, I guess its shows XBOX HQ in Japan that there is hope when its the right game. The problem is, you never know what the right game will be. Lord knows microsoft tried with JRPGs and other token efforts to court the japanese.

I expect some residual boost for next week, with a drop to around the 5 or 6 thousand mark the week after that. Which is good, considering months ago we were excited when the system reached 2000. This is also befor the 40gb PS3, so we dont know how exactly will that factor in since its ad campaign has be just as agressive as it was when the PSP Slim was launching. Given the success that had, It will be interesting to see what happens.

Final fantasy Crisis core is upping the psp, and Ace Combat 6 (It is six, righ?) is upping 360 numbers.

This makes perfect sense, Japanese people buy games that cater to their tastes, regardless of how they do in America.

PSP sales changed by 78? That's some consistency, there. Not like I have to fear for the ongoing success of my DS/PSP.

wait a second, there must be some clerical error here, I was told numerous times that japanese gamers were completly xenophobic and would never buy a non japanese gaming product D:

MS release a game where they nuke are ass would go well over there.

how did they sell 10,000+ ps2's? who the hell still buys those things?

This is directed at Ihar `Philips` Filipau.

The Chinese are not racist. They don't hate on Japan just because they are holding a grudge. The Japanese as a nation does not, to this day, admit any wrongdoing in their invasion of China. All the damned torturing of captives, civilian or otherwise, the rape, and general massacre. They do not admit any wrong fucking doing.

As a Chinese who finds much to admire in modern day Japan, I find that highly highly highly fucking annoying. This is like modern day Germany saying that it did nothing wrong when Hitler was in charge. Although I can guarantee that plenty of Jews will have a word to say about that.

This isn't like Pearl Harbor where an island base was attacked. The Japanese occupied parts of China and then proceeded to behave like animals. What if not only did Japan sack Pearl Harbor but occupied parts of Hawaii and proceeded to rape and pillage it, torturing American citizens, raping American women. What if after that they were to say they admit no wrongdoing? Americans would be fucking pretty pissed I would imagine. And I'm not hating on America or any other nation, just that the person Ihar `Philips` Filipau may not have all the facts when commenting about China in such a harsh manner. I don't even know if this Ihar `Philips` Filipau is American. I'm just putting it in context that most reading this blog can understand.

what the fuck are all you bitches babbling about? jesus christ can't people just comment on hardware sales? last i checked this was not a history blog.

is Virtua Fighter 5 Online out in Japan?




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T.H. You forgot the best part. We did a redo of the bombing on Japan 15ish years ago, they got so pissed off and the government said "we're sorry". The soldier who flew the plane to drop the bomb was asked if he was ever sorry for killing 80,000 people. He answered nope, and he has slept fine every night because he had his orders and he followed them.

Who would've know.

this is obviously a misprint...


if not then... wow.

Pfft, Microsoft should just buy Square Enix already...