PS3 outsells Wii thanks to must-have game(in Japan)
By Luke McKinney
In news that Sony executives have been praying nightly for, the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan from Nov 5th-11th. Even better for the beleaguered console, it wasn’t the result of price cuts or satanic rituals, but an honest to goodness game people wanted to play.
Shin Sangoku Musou 5 isn’t a bunch of words you’ll have seen before (unless a cat jumps on your keyboard), but you may know it as Dynasty Warriors and its popularity is credited by Kotaku with helping the PS3 shift units.
Sony can’t take all the responsibility for this success - and they know it. Even CEO Howard Stringer admits that a big part of the victory is the minor detail that Nintendo still can’t build consoles as fast as people buy them - as reported by the Associated Press - so it would be premature to claim the PS3 is making a comeback.
Still, it’s encouraging news for all those fans of the Blu-ray box, and gives hope that their favoured console can gain a secure foothold in the an important market.
While the Dynasty Warriors series isn’t popular enough in the west to spur a similar sales improvement, it seems the recent price cut is doing just fine with console sales doubling in the following weeks (reported by Reuters). Of course, it’s very easy to throw around words like double and triple when you start with such a small number, but they can’t afford to miss out any good press for their billion-dollar project.
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November 17th, 2007
“Even CEO Howard Stringer admits that a big part of the victory is the minor detail that Nintendo still can’t build consoles as fast as people buy them ”
He didnt say it was a BIG PART at all you cunts.
November 17th, 2007
Luke: you have gone from good unbiased articles to this complete fabrication trash? If you are going to quote Stringer THEN QUOTE HIM CORRECTLY. This is completely false what you have written.
To top this off, this is the SECOND week that the PS3 has outsold the Wii. And, if you had bothered checking, it has ALOT more to do with the 40GB White PS3 release than DW6. And at the same time the ‘HUGE’ seller Mario Galaxy has failed to really perform as well as people thought it would (has been out 2 weeks with only 125,000 units sales).
Finally, if you knew anything about the DW franchise, the same game is available on X360 - yet that had no surge of sales at all (in fact it dropped back behind the PS2 and GBA again). If it was the franchise, you’d think the X360 would benefit in some way, as it did from Ace Combat series.. hrm?
“Luke… use the fanboy … “
November 17th, 2007
You dorks acutually spend this much time whining because the PS3 sucks so bad. Why don’t you get a life and stop worrying about poorly written articles.
November 17th, 2007
Yeah, how pathetic. I bet GroverFD lives at home with his mommy, weighs 300 lbs, and has never been laid.
November 17th, 2007
What kind of losers would care this much about the PS3, or any system for that matter. It would be interesting to do a study on these type of people from a sociological perspective. Or just funny maybe.
November 17th, 2007
Yeah, this guy GroverFD really used a starwars line. What a pile.
November 18th, 2007
What kind of retard would even care about what other people say on the internetz?
January 12th, 2008
this is a gaming article so you dont get to post her judging people as gamers are prety much societys outcasts anyway.
so what is he quoted star wars. im a nerd and dam proud of it. i like being who i am. i still have a great social life, i just like games and sci-fi ect. how is quoting star wars any different to quoting the simpsons or family guy?