360 In 3rd Place (in japan)

[Wedgy]

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/ps3/aho...duh-221079.php

Xbox 360's year-long head start was all for naught. At least in Japan. Since its launch one month ago, the PLAYSTATION 3 has outsold the 360 by 10,000 units. Both of them were, of course, outsold by the Nintendo Wii. But that's neither here nor there.

Man, I wish there was a way to track machines after they were sold in The Land of the Rising Sun. I'd give Crecente's right eye to know how many were not resold.

WOW i didnt see that coming

Question is what will MS do now?
BlueDragon is shifting more units then ever, but it seem those japs just love their franchises too much.

Probebly a big price drop, MS can afford it if they really are making £75 profit per sale.

[majin]

price drop, more bundles and loads more advertising.

they still will lose extremely badly over there this gen but they need to try get the brand name known over there alot more ready for the next xbox, they should aim to do a bit better every generation.

[Sacred]

Originally Posted by Wedgy

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/ps3/aho...duh-221079.php

WOW i didnt see that coming

Question is what will MS do now?
BlueDragon is shifting more units then ever, but it seem those japs just love their franchises too much.

Probebly a big price drop, MS can afford it if they really are making £75 profit per sale.

MS are a western company building their consoles for a western market and thats why they won't do as well as Sony or Nintendo in Japan.
Best thing MS can do is buy up the rights to companies that manufacture games that make the Playstation and Wii popular in Japan, this would then force people to buy their console over another as its the only one offering the games they want to play. Obviously they need to get the FF franchise onboard with them, the only reason I would even consider buying a PS3 (except for resale on eBay) would be to play the next FF game. Without this game the PS3 will fall flat on its face (IMO). If MS (or Nintendo) manage to get the rights to any of the major RPG franchises (KoH, FF, MGS etc) then they will in effect remove Sony from the market around the world. That is if Sony havent already done this themselves with their very poor launch this year. A big price drop (say £75) from the current Japaneese price would make a big difference as the console would be reletivley cheap, MS wouldn't make an initial profit but would recoup it through software sales (like Sony are intending to do with the PS3) so they could easilly pull it off.
But do MS really need to become a large part of the eastern market when their already so dominent in the western market? MS are already reaping a fortune with the initial sale of their consoles coupled with xBox Live Gold.
The problem is with MS being such a powerful company they could cause serious harm to the gaming market by buying up all of the big selling titles making getting any other console pointless (kindof like the windows scenario, everythings built round windows now-a-days so other OSes are pretty pointless)

[X-Buster!]

I expected it really.