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Wii to launch with 400,000 in Japan; is it too low?
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010The launch number for the Wii in Japan is going to be 400,000 units, compared
with 100,000 for the PlayStation 3. This may seem like a big number, but it is a
lot smaller than it seems.
The PlayStation 2 (around 650K), GameCube (450K), Game Boy Advance (around 650K)
and DS (500K) all launched with more units, and [...]
PS3 launch in four days
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006Since Ridge Racer 7 is the main launch game I’m interested in, I’d like to take a look at the correlation between Ridge Racer and PlayStation brand today. Every PlayStation launch has seen a Ridge Racer title - it’s tradition. For each launch, Ridge Racer has always been the highest selling game of the launch [...]
PS3 launch in five days
Monday, November 6th, 2006It doesn’t really feel like the PS3 is coming out this Saturday. There hasn’t been a bombardment of TV ads until today; there wasn’t a demo unit in Akihabara when I went on Saturday (it turns out they all got installed on Sunday instead); and there’s still no price info about the games that we [...]