PS3 launch in Japan

[Carl B]

I don't know, but isn't the 60GB version more popular?

Well in the US definitely, but it's not the US I was talking about.

The price cut for the 20GB seemed thought out enough, and the shipping allotments more evenly distributed, that I'm just wondering if the 60GB version holds the same level of appeal over there that it does here. Really just a point of curiosity...

 

[one]

Well in the US definitely, but it's not the US I was talking about.

The price cut for the 20GB seemed thought out enough, and the shipping allotments more evenly distributed, that I'm just wondering if the 60GB version holds the same level of appeal over there that it does here. Really just a point of curiosity...

Well, as there are too many auction resellers and overseas buyers, I think no one can estimate the appeal and such at this time...

 

[mckmas8808]

Man those NNN videos are crazy.

 

[DJ12]

I sense Merill-Lynch revising predictions as we speak.

 

[Deepak]

The first PS3 sold..or at least, the first one sold at the official launch event with Kutaragi

I saved this pic on my HDD. BTW, any pics of any Girl Gamer picking up a PS3? That would be interesting to see.

 

[Bad_Boy]

I saved this pic on my HDD. BTW, any pics of any Girl Gamer picking up a PS3? That would be interesting to see.

 

[Bad_Boy]

I don't know how true this is, but taken from gamepot pulled up an interesting quote.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6161537.html

Sony expects to ship 100 thousand units every week after today's launch, which should give it total sales of about 400,000 units by the time the Wii is released in December. Coincidently, Nintendo expects 400,000 units to be available Day 1 of its launch in Japan.

 

[SugarCoat]

not one person with money left over to buy a game with it. How sad.

 

[mckmas8808]

I don't know how true this is, but taken from gamepot pulled up an interesting quote.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6161537.html

I hope this is true. 100,000 a week sounds nice.

 

[zed]

just read this on the bbc website

When I first heard about the PS3 I was so excited that I've hardly been able to sleep. Okay, so that's exaggerating a bit, but since Sony has messed about with the European launch date, I have flown all the way to Japan to get my hands on one. I am currently in a Japanese airport with my PS3. I can't wait to get home and play it!
Tim Gregory, London, UK

 

[rounin]

I hope this is true. 100,000 a week sounds nice.

I'm just wondering if its 100k unites world wide or just to Japan or what?

 

[hey69]

well my mate in japan told me there where quite a few europeans who went there just to buy a ps3! (they waited with him in the line )
if anybody needs an import ps3 let me know

 

[Bad_Boy]

I'm just wondering if its 100k unites world wide or just to Japan or what?

Well the quote was specifically talking about the japan launch, and comparing it to the Wii's in japan on day one. So i guess it's safe to say locally in japan. But feel free to correct me on that, quotes like that are sometimes difficult to tell.

If the quote is true, I wonder what the weekly shipments will look like in the NA.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

well my mate in japan told me there where quite a few europeans who went there just to buy a ps3! (they waited with him in the line )
if anybody needs an import ps3 let me know

Having seen Tapin's link to GAF, and reports that you'd be locked into Japanese with the requirement for a Japanese credit card, importing strikes me as a bad idea, at least until it's known you'll be able to register you're own cards onto imported units.

 

[one]

Footage of the Yurakucho launch event with Kutaragi
http://impress.tv/cgi-bin/play/play.plx?bw=700&cd=ogm061111_01&no=all

 

[pipo]

That gentleman em... is worried about getting mugged on the way home.

Nope. It turns out he's worried they will ask him something.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/foreigners-and-fights-ps3-jpn-launchs-dark-side-214130.php

 

[thatdude90210]

Nope. It turns out he's worried they will ask him something.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/foreigners-and-fights-ps3-jpn-launchs-dark-side-214130.php

Looks like the Chinese had a pretty successful PS3 launch. How did the Japanese PS3 launch go?

Don't know how accurate these sales numbers are but the launch software sales seems to reflect some of those stories of resellers buying up units using Chinese nationals. I'm betting the USA launch will have lots of ebayers using the homeless and transients.

PS3 20G - 32,000
PS3 60G - 51,000
(total 83,000)

RR7 - 27000 (38%)
Gundam - 20000 (26%)
Resistence - 16000 (40%)
Genji - 10000 (20%)
Sega Golf Club - 3000 (24%)

Edit: those numbers came from Gamefront.de

 

[inefficient]

I almost bought a SIXAXIS yesterday. Just so that I could walk out of the store with something...

 

[hey69]

you couldnt find a ps3 ?

 

[kyetech]

Wow, so there wasnt even a 1:1 pick up of software to hardware? Sony must be pissed ?

EDIT: IMO, this ridiculous situation of such small numbers being launched (thus creating the auction market) really needs to be stopped, by being companies only putting out when they have numbers of units big enough that its not possible to make such auctionings a reality. For example there could be some sort of trading rule that calculates per country, the minimum number of units that must be allocated before a launch can take place? Then with enough units, the problem would be dramatically reduced?