Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 21 - Feb. 27: The New Kid edition

@Jack Kevorkian

Catherine, perhaps?

@StrikeMan
Makes no sense considering it's a PS3 360 game. So they'd play it on PS3.

@Jack Kevorkian

Catherine? or was that the week before?

@The Aquacharger Maybe Japan has a decent population of ass-men who didn't like the boobular PS3 cover.

@MowDownJoe
Could just go to Kinkos or use their home printers and print out the 360 boxart. It's what I'm doing.

I decided to brosw Joystiq Japan to find out whatit could've been only to see that Joystiq JP has the old layout!
http://jp.joystiq.com/
I so missthe old layout.

Also JoystiqJP has like no comments.

@The Aquacharger

http://userstyles.org/styles/31622

You're welcome.

@Jack Kevorkian

I was checking VG Chartz for something else, but it looks like The Idolmaster 2 released for 360. It sold almost 35,500 units so maybe that's what did it.

@sonicspike41
It's more so the being able to change names that I miss and how it never remembered if you were logged in, but thanks anyways.

@Jack Kevorkian It's gone up from squat to squat and a half!

@Jack Kevorkian For future reference, all you have to do is click the source link. You'll see what game for what platform brought about the sales increase, in this case the highest Xbox 360 game is coming in at number 10 - which would be, as DCGX mentioned, THE iDOLM@STER 2.

@The Aquacharger

Lol no one goes to Joystiq Japan.

@The Aquacharger

Whoa, since when was there a Joystiq Japan?

Idolmaster makes sense. I had long forgotten about that one since no one over here really gets the the game. Myself included.

@MNeko
Squat + (Squat x 1.5%) = Jack Squat

@Jack Kevorkian I think it was an Idolmaster game

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze There is tigers blood in dem veins.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

lol. I find this one hilarious http://cdn.videogum.com/files/2011/03/charlie_sheen_winning.jpg

Just a few more weeks until the 3DS releases here!

@Zacxx201

Haha.

Ok, you win. =P

@Punkrawk Bbob

*months

/fixed

@Co

Years

@Punkrawk Bbob

One at a time until they stop selling out in the first few hours would be my guess.

@Punkrawk Bbob

Are you against the 3DS or something like that? It's going to be up there until the others release a new console.

It's a Nintendo machine.
It's new.
It's 3D.

Welcome to the new king of the charts for the foreseeable future.

@Puertoricarious
They were so angry that there were no 3DS' so they raged and bought a DSiLL

@Puertoricarious

Hipsters.

@Puertoricarious

I'm more concerned about the 1,773 people that bought a PS2 this week.

@Puertoricarious

Maybe the price dropped when the 3DS came out.

@TheRepublic

They had at least 400,000 systems made for the area. They might be sold out almost everywhere, but there's probably still a few rare systems left that haven't been snagged by importer/exporters.

@mrantimatter Probably in out-of-the-way stores.

@Stevetrop Man of Mystery

Before you flop.

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Yea that's all I've got.

@Soiden

Actually someone needs to make a version in 3D for 3DS users to show off to their friends/enemies.

@Soiden

It Prints 3D money!!!

@MNC Dover
It could shoot the money all over our face! IT COULD BE CALLED A MONEY SHOT!

@Mehbah
I don't see how day-one DLC buyers are screwing things up for you. You don't need to purchase it if you don't want to. And I doubt you know the story behind every piece of day-one DLC out there; maybe many of them really were honest-to-goodness last minute things that didn't make it into the final cut.

@SuperStition

Because games are getting stripped of things and short-sighted people justify it with excuses like "you don't have to purchase it if you don't want it". Games used to contain extra costumes and bonus things. Now those are getting taken out of the game and sold for extra money. And the more idiots keep falling for it, the more widespread it gets. Just look at how EA treats Dragon Age and Mass Effect, and how common in-game pre-order bonuses are. They're advertising it months before the damn game comes out.

"but hurr they're just weapons! they won't change anything!"

Yeah, except not. Rockstar is now using entire missions as pre-order bonuses. And you can't get all of them without pre-ordering it multiple times.

And even IF they are weapons, so what? Many weapons to choose from is the effing standard. How do you even decide what "matters"? It would be absolutely idiotic to claim that the many bonus features and options aren't part of the whole package. You can technically beat a game with only a pistol, so surely that means it's perfectly ok to force you to pay extra for all the other weapons, right? That's where this is leading, but since you're a frog in boiling water, you keep defending that publishers are giving you less despite charging more, even for the base package.

If they were last minute things that didn't make the final cut, they wouldn't be advertised long before that. Or they would be free, with new paid content further down the road.