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    Xbox outsells PS3 in Japan


    The Xbox 360’s Japenese sales figures have finally overtaken those of the Sony PlayStation 3 - by a margin of just 239 consoles, according to market watcher Media Create.

    Figures from the company show that 17,673 Xbox 360s were sold during the seven days up to 4 November. Some 17,434 Sony PS3 consoles were in the same time.

    It’s difficult to say exactly what caused this sudden Xbox 360 sales ‘surge’. However, Microsoft has just cut the Core's model’s cost to ¥27,800 (£120/€172/$244) and the Standard edition’s price tag to ¥34,800 (£150/€215/$306), with effect from 1 November.

    The 360 has been growing its month-on-month sales figures in Japan of late, while both the PS3 and Nintendo's Wii have experienced declining sales.
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    People at RegHardware appearantly aren't all too smart. If they'd had a look at the software sales they would have seen that the reason for the high sales was most likely the release of Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, which sold 77.000 copies...
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    • #3
      ^LOL.

      I'm sure the price had something to do with it though.

      The PS3 is officially doomed.

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      • #4
        an xbox360 title scoring 2nd place on the software charts in unheard of in Japan, so I'll stick with Ace Combat being the reason, ofcourse the low price of the console helped. Last weeks sales were down again, PS3 did well because of the introduction of the cheap 40gb model...
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