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Xbox 360 beats PS3 in Japan

Aug. 18, 2008 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

With all the bad news swirling around the Xbox 360 these days, I'm happy to link to something positive for a change. Even if it is unbelievably temporary and because of a game I've never even heard of:

Microsoft's Xbox 360 beat Sony's PlayStation 3 in Japan weekly sales for the first time two weeks ago, riding robust demand for a recent Xbox 360 title.

Microsoft sold 28,116 units of the Xbox 360 in the week ended August 10, compared with 10,705 units of the PS3, driven by the August 7 launch in Japan of Namco Bandai's "Tales of Vesperia" role-playing game.

During the week, the Microsoft machine still lagged behind Nintendo's Wii, which sold 41,044 units.

Namco Bandai plans to launch "Tales of Vesperia," an Xbox 360 exclusive, in North America on August 26.

Exciting, no? OK, moving on...

Discuss this Article 11

Ocean
on Aug 18, 2008
Thats a pretty skewed way of looking at the market (or is it that we don't want to look at the market? :) ) A crumbling tower: Sony lays siege to the 360's weak spots http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080817-microsoft.html >>Whatever your preferred answer, these problems are real, getting worse, and starting to show up in the sales numbers. Microsoft doesn't have the wiggle-room it did in the market even a year ago, and it's past time to step up to the competition. Does the company have a viable plan to do that? We'll see as we move into the holiday season. <<
shark47
on Aug 18, 2008
I know there's not too much positive news about the XBox 360 these days (of course, that depends on your perspective), but it's funny to see the Ocean, lindy, et al searching the web for any negative articles/blogs/comments about any Microsoft product and posting it here. I am pretty sure Ocean is the same old preseton/vandil/bonch.
Ocean
on Aug 18, 2008
No search; I read Ars daily.
Waethorn
on Aug 18, 2008
"I read Ars daily." I wipe my Ars daily.
meason
on Aug 18, 2008
I am on xbox #9, it its makes it to 10. Hello PS3.
tayme
on Aug 18, 2008
@meason - "I am on xbox #9, it its makes it to 10. Hello PS3. " I have never had a problem...and my X-Box is into year number 2. It gets played a lot for gaming and for the kid's DVD playback and Media Center streaming. Do all of you who are having problems keep your 360s inside of closed entertainment center or with the brick of a power supply right on top of it? Or, have we just been lucky? I am guessing that it is the second choice, since it seems the problem is obviously widespread. I'll take lucky, in this case though... --tayme
meason
on Aug 18, 2008
@Tayme No, No, I keep mine in an easy bake oven..... It sits in the perfect open air in a 74-78 degree room. The vast majority of the 9 came as bad replacments from the refurb center, either RROD, bad DVD drives, or wrong DVD Region.
tayme
on Aug 18, 2008
@meason - I guess that I have been lucky then...I will probably get home from work tonight and the daughter will tell me that it took a crap today, now that I said that!!! --tayme
drylight
on Aug 18, 2008
Bad news is all over the place for MS these days. http://news.yahoo.com/s//infoworld/20080818/tc_infoworld/109364
tayme
on Aug 18, 2008
@drylight - Nice trolling...but that's old news and has been rehashed dozens of times all over the place. You must have forgotten to read this part: "The idea of a downgrade option is nothing new for enterprise licenses, since it can take several years for large organizations to plan out and deploy significant new software, under schedules that bear no resemblance to a vendor's product schedules." And according to most of you anti-MS troll types, the vast majority of Windows PCs exist in the business setting, right...so if you remove that number, what happens to that 1 in 3 ratio? --tayme
subzerohitman721
on Aug 18, 2008
Microsoft clearly has its work cut out with the 360. As an owner, I'm disappointed so far this year. Not enough to consider a Wii, but definitely enough to consider a PS3. On a side note, my 360 is still holding up 14 months after puchase with no RROD's. Peace.

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