October 8, 2008
Microsoft Xbox 360 sales in Japan surpassed Sony in September
This industry news is provided from the Best Web Service Company Limited
Oct. 6, game magazine publisher Enterbrain said that the sale volume of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in Japan this September is more than Sony’s PS3 game console for the first time.
According to foreign media reported that since last month, Microsoft cut the price of the Xbox 360 console, its sales growth is very strong. Last Friday, according to Enterbrain figures, as of Sept. 28, Microsoft has four weeks in the sale of 5.3547 million Xbox 360 video game, and the sale of PS3 games for the volume of 3.3071 million. In September, Nintendo game consoles in Japan to keep a leading position in the market, the sale of 10.9548 million Wii game consoles.
While the Xbox 360 in the United States has been well received in Japan and the PS3 and the Wii is very difficult competition. In order to enhance sales, Microsoft on Sept. 11 lowered the price of Xbox 360 Arcade, not on the hard drive configuration of the Xbox 360 Arcade price has been reduced 8000-19800 yen; for high-end Elite model of the game down the price of Japanese Yen 8000-39800 .
Sony 40GB hard drive configuration of the PS3 console will sell for 39,800 yen; and Nintendo’s Wii console sells for 25,000 yen.
Square Enix Holdings on September 11 issued by the role-playing game “EverQuest secret” to promote the Microsoft video game sales.
In the hand-held video game market, Nintendo sold 10,000 23.4477 of the DS, and Sony PS Portable game of the sale amount to 10.9274 million units.
Enterbrain said, PSP sales in the Oct. 16 release of new models before the game slowed down. The new PSP-3000 console has a built-in microphone, equipped with advanced night crystal panels, more suitable for outdoor use, response time than existing machines to a short response time.
Nintendo will issued a new DS on November 1, which can take pictures, play music and will gradually infiltrated into the area of iPhone and Apple iPod.
