Posted by asjbiotek on 03/10/07 02:21

Sales of PS3 in Japan DOUBLED because of new games, but in the USA the
lack of games (Motorstorm, which is AWESOME and will push PS3 sales
too, only debuted 2 days ago) is causing confusion...are people using
it for Blu-ray instead?

PS. Good news that the PS3 is starting to sell much better....

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/10338/1092/

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Kotuku has gathered the latest weeks Japanese video game hardware
sales, and for the Sony it shows a sharp increase in the bottom line.
The actual figures from Media Create are;

Weekly Sales:

* DS Lite: 111, 814 units
* PSP: 66, 156 units
* Wii: 57,972 units
* PS3: 44,000 units
* PS2: 15,364 units
* Xbox 360: 3,379 units

The PS3 Selling 44,000 units for the week ending March 4th is a jump
of over 100% from the previous week.

We know how the Japanese love their giant robot battling games, so it
comes as no surprise that the number one selling game in the same
period was the PS3 version of Gundam Musou. Sales of this game along
with lack of units for the Nintendo Wii and enticing software for the
Xbox 360 (after the Blue Dragon sales burst) sees the PS3 sales on
fire.

But, what is happening in the US? It seems that that despite record
shipping and meeting of sales targets by Sony, The PS3 is hardly being
played.

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