Japan Sales Thread

Well if there was a decent price cut and Sony made a concerted effort to ensure all games were released on PSN as well as UMD Go might pick up a few more sales. Right now it's a bit of an embarrassment, I would be surprised if they have sold through their initial WW shipment.

PSPGo is a decent idea, but the execution has been sorely lacking from Sony which doesn't come as much of a surprise to me when it comes to anything PSP.
 
NathansFortune said:
PSPGo is a decent idea, but the execution has been sorely lacking from Sony which doesn't come as much of a surprise to me when it comes to anything PSP.
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I figured at least SCEJ would support it, but with a major game like Birth By Sleep not having a PSN release at all in the one territory where the PSP actually sells well surprised even me. At this point, when I hear a PSP game isn't going to get a PSN release, I start wondering if it's due to contract restrictions not allowing it on a home system like the PS3 ala Minis' Tetris. Yeah, I've been getting the funny feeling we're going to get a PSP emulator eventually; it's the only way to reward publishers for supporting the Go.


Silent_Buddha said:
If it included a "girlfriend simulator" or a karaoke segment or "photograph the female characters" mode I'd be pretty up on it's chances. As is, though it'll be interesting to see how it's received over there. "Novel games" are fairly popular but usually only in regards to the previously mentioned game types or in Hentai games.
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Oh, there's plenty of visual novel games in Japan that don't look like dating sims; there's horror and mystery as well. Hentai's not even allowed on any of the current consoles, not sure how well those kind of games sell on PC. 428 even scored a 40/40 from famitsu. Granted, it only sold 53k, but I think that's pretty good for a visual novel. From the description, it actually sounds vaguely Heavy Rain-ish; maybe Heavy Rain will at least review well.

Yes, I know all about Famitsu review scores, but 40/40 takes more than buying a lot of ads. Maybe not a lot more...
 
I'm almost done with guessing, at this point. I'd say that we'll see future PSPs with built-in memory and bluetooth. I'd like to say a smaller form-factor, but it also seems clear that Sony can't just ditch UMD (or some other form of physical distribution, for the inevitable PSP 2), particularly in Japan, the PSP's strongest market.
 
obonicus said:
I'm almost done with guessing, at this point. I'd say that we'll see future PSPs with built-in memory and bluetooth. I'd like to say a smaller form-factor, but it also seems clear that Sony can't just ditch UMD (or some other form of physical distribution, for the inevitable PSP 2), particularly in Japan, the PSP's strongest market.
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I was rather excited when Worldwide restructuring was announced but so far (from the outside) it seems like it is "in name only"
 
They move slow, I guess? We heard about restructuring in 2008, but it was what, middle last year when Kaz got his new job? When will we see Sony Network Entertainment? 2010? Will SOE get moved around again?
 
We have already seen a few big and small restructuring moves along the way. Whether and how those moves matter to us is a different question altogether.
 
To be fair, there's probably a lot of resistence to changing the way things are done. Especially when it involves departments and department heads that have been around for decades.

Overcoming internal politics and interdepartmental competition probably isn't an easy thing to do without cutting key personel. Something a still mostly Japanese corporation would be unlikely to want to do en mass.

Restructuring NA and EU operations probably isn't that difficult, doing so with Japanese operations however...

Regards,
SB
 
Silent_Buddha said:
To be fair, there's probably a lot of resistence to changing the way things are done. Especially when it involves departments and department heads that have been around for decades.

Overcoming internal politics and interdepartmental competition probably isn't an easy thing to do without cutting key personel. Something a still mostly Japanese corporation would be unlikely to want to do en mass.

Restructuring NA and EU operations probably isn't that difficult, doing so with Japanese operations however...

Regards,
SB
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Coming from a worldwide team let me just say that I think you would be surprised at just how difficult the bolded actually is.
 
What's with the 2 separate PSP/DS numbers? For reference's sake, God Eater came out on PSP, Namco-Bandai's Monster Hunter r--homage.

On the PS3, Star Ocean 4 International arrived and bombed. SO4 was pretty sucky by most accounts, so no repeat of Vesperia.
 
Probably because there's nothing all that exciting about the post holiday numbers. Weekly sales are pretty predictable unless there's a major release.
 
djskribbles said:
Probably because there's nothing all that exciting about the post holiday numbers. Weekly sales are pretty predictable unless there's a major release.
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I disagree. The DSi LL is certainly doing better than I believe everyone expected, the PSPgo is absolutely atrocious, I'm sure many will say that the Wii outselling the slim PS3 week on week was "to be expected because of NSMB Wii" but I would call that disingenuous (at best), but even with that the PS3 is up tremendously over 2009. The DSL is outselling the combined numbers of any two of these PS2, PSPgo, and 360...
 
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