360 gaining momentum in japan?

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  1. JISHELL

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    Wasnt the release #'s considerably less in japan than Western countries?Maybe the japanese consumer is a lil pissed.....
     
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    oops the ps3 supplies..
     
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    it's just a matter of size realy, if a company is selling ships , and went form 1 ship per week, to sell 3 ships per week, then that's momentum, however if the company is just selling toy ships, that is not momentum.
     
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    So...you're saying MS is selling toy ships? :???:

    I think MS would be happy with around 15-20k sold/week, that would put them on pace for around 1million per year, which is probably all they could possibly hope for. So, they're about 1/4 of the way there at this point.
     
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    all i'm saying is that the recent spike in 360's sales, is insignificant, because it still falls behind the other players in the market, going from 20-30K sales (great sales) to 40-60K (very good sales) is a gain in momentum , however going from 1,5-2k (pathetic sales) to 3-6k (less pathetic sales) it's not.
     
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    I'd disagree, it can be indicative of a trend. XBOX1's sales started off strong and declined steadily into nothingness. 360 sales are doing the opposite. We know have 3 weeks in a row where sales took a signifigant jump, they're still pathetic, but they're improving.

    Also, if they did indeed sell out 100k Blue Dragon pre-order bundles as rumoured, that's a huge boost.
     
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    How is it not? That's more than doubling of your sales. No matter what you think of their sales, be them terrible or not, it is indeed a gain in momentum, however I strongly do not believe it'll last.
     
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    I fail to see the "strong" start from XBOX in japan, i see the same pattern with 360, the only difference is that in the same amount of time xbox 360 has sold half the units of his predecesor.

    as you can see from my link, XBOX has also a similar spike near holidays, it didn't last though.
     
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    You fail to see 122k sold in the first week? That's much stronger than 360...

    And that spike is not really similar, there is absolutely no spike in the first weeks of November as we're seeing now. Not until December did the sales go up.

    Anyways, I don't want to seem like I'm blowing this out of proportion, it's just interesting that's all. It's definately a little early in the year for people to be writing this off as the Holiday spike though, that usual doesn't happen for another month.
     
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    that was not my point, i said so myself, my disagreement was with this:

    it can be indicative of a trend. XBOX1's sales started off strong and declined steadily into nothingness. 360 sales are doing the opposite.

    i think it's more than obvious from the data we have so far, that both consoles have a similar sales course, cut the numbers of XBOX in half and you'll get more or less the 360 numbers, including the spike.

    [​IMG]
     
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    Fair enough, though worth pointing out XBOX1 one never once recieved a boost in early November.
     
    #52 scooby_dooby, Nov 25, 2006
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    Small tidbit - Blue Dragon Famitsu scores are in: 37/40 (10/9/9/9)
     
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    Software sales this week in JP were good for the 360, with DOAX2 entering the Top10, and another game at rank 15 or so. That didn't move much HW, though, with around 7K units. Still, due to abysmal PS3 supply, the 360 is still the best-selling next-gen console in Japan (it should become last next week, though).
     
    #54 Corwin_B, Nov 30, 2006
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    Maybe not consoles, but... uh... nevermind. :)
     
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    Gross. :twisted:
     
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    NICE!! I knew the Guch would pull it off...
     
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    360 sold over 7k units this week in japan (7,007 to be more precise), thats ~3k over the last week...

    I'm not sure if its just the proximity of Blue Dragon, but it does seem that 360 sales are slowly crawling up...
     
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    Ya the last 4 weeks have been pretty strong (considering), either the core pack has really hit the sweet spot, or the hype around BD is really mvoing some units.

    When I saw the 6k/week figure from a month ago I figured it was just a blip, but in fact they've increased since then, in the face of Wii and PS3 no less. Not too shabby...
     
    #59 scooby_dooby, Nov 30, 2006
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    It's because of DOAX2 (It's at the 8th with 45,536 copies - 1/3 of the whole Xbox 360 owners!)
    http://www.m-create.com/jpn/s_ranking.html
    HW numbers Nov 20-26:
    DSL 201,378
    PS3 32,662
    PSP 30,815
    PS2 26,263
    Xbox360 7,007
    GBASP 1,264
    GBM 1,235
    GC 576
    DS 212
    GBA 27
    Xbox 0
     
    #60 one, Nov 30, 2006
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