First of all you lack of ability to answer the simple questions is astounding. I guess truth does hurt.

Second, Japan matters in the overall scheme of things. For example, looking at the April NPD numbers where the 360 sold more then the PS3. Sure.
Now we add in the Japan numbers.
Add them together and guess what? The PS3 outsold the 360…well isn’t that something?

Of course, when the PS3 has been selling at a better rate then the 360 in its existence (better year over year sales, hit 20 million much quicker then the 360 did etc.), it’s not that surprising, you just have to look at the whole picture.

But Jonah, continue to ignore the facts for baseless speculation, it’s all just coincidence, huh?

Just wondering, does Sony earn extra points for selling in Japan? When you can sell more units in a single November *or* December in North America than you can in an entire YEAR in Japan….

There’s not a marketing exec in the world that can do anything about the current gen numbers for the PS3. Studied carefully, it’s not a product that lends itself to consumerism and once the ball dropped about the price, the fate was sealed a long time prior to its release.

Phil Harrison’s involvement in SCEE was the reason why the PlayStation 2 brand is still an established force to be reckoned with. In an increasingly souring relationship (between the press, consumers and SCEE) of the PlayStation brand (due the PS3), the man maintained a great deal of poise.

Atari and Infogrames are the same company; well, the Infogrames group owns Atari. If Harrison “ruined” that company, as you claim (show me some reports please), I wonder what would give investors and the board any inclination to hire him to head it.

In addition, while I do not condone the anti-competitive behaviour regarding publishing rights for the EU, I can partly understand one of the reasons. Firstly, which is easy enough to guess: Sony acquired the rights through financial means. It’s simply business. What makes up for it is that Atari earns the majority of its revenue in the EU region (71% for the FY07/08). Sony would probably have used that to leverage itself more than anything else. It’s a less risky venture and I’m sure they payment was in kind for the loss in sales across other platforms.

I am currently waiting to get a comment from Atari.

The real reason is that Atari is closing down in Europe. Namco will now be publishing Tekken in Europe, that’s also why Sony is publishing Ghostbusters in Europe. There is no conspiracy here. Atari is in dire financial trouble and just can’t afford to go there.

And Phil Harrison stepped down to lead Atari because he felt like he was spinning his wheels at Sony with nothing going on. So he decided to go to a studio where he could make the games he thought should be made.

Get a map. North America isn’t the world.

So your logic fails as does the entire premise of this article.

Once again, I ask, average out the total WORLDWIDE sales of the 360 and PS3 consoles and tell me what is truly selling the least per year.

Jonah – d@d.com isn’t an email. Good powers of investigation, I’m sure it took a while to work that out. Whatever happened to the Mail (will not be published) policy hmmm?

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