The Xbox 360 dominates the Japanese market in terms of user satisfaction, if the results of a recent survey conducted by Famitsu are to be believed:
360 4.2 PSP 3.8 PS3 3.6 DS 3.2 Wii 3.2
Via Hachimaki.
It should of course be noted that the Xbox seems to have attracted certain types of gamer more strongly than others (for example, those interested in western games or Idolmaster), although it’s not clear whether this situation has persisted.
There is also some suggestion that Japanese users of the console are overwhelmingly male.
Also, the sales figures speak for themselves:
(figures in millions of units sold in Japan, circa the end of 2008)
DS 26 PSP 11 Wii 7.8 PS3 2.7 360 0.9
Perhaps Microsoft has a chance in Japan after all? Or is it too late for them after all?
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You know, you could at least try to be non-biased.
What?
maybe, but I think they can increase their chances if they came out with a portable Xbox. looking at the sales figure not even the Wii or the PS3 enjoy the same amount of success as the DS or the PSP
i doubt it. microsoft says they never have had and never will have plans for a portable game device. although if they want better sales in japan they may just do that.
The WII has shovel ware for all, The 360 has shovel ware for the west(mostly bad shooters and action games) and the PS3 has shovel ware for the east(mostly bad action or rpg games).
Canne everyone be miserable with the 2nd generation of casual corporate gaming?
Hells yes.
REAL srs gamers get an NES and play all the games on the hardest difficulty without dying. Anyone else is getting their hand held.
i dont know if im the only one but ive had hard drive issuses with my ps3 despite the fear of the redring wich most likly wont happen i trhink i like my 360 more the online play is great. im too hardcore for the wii.
WTF is this SHIiTe!?!?!?!? After all the trolling of Xbox 360 in Japan, NOW they prefer it over the PS3!?!? This, like the gov't engineered AIG outrage, is a set-up.
Someone apparently isn't quite clear on what the survey measured, esp. in comparison to the sales figures.
(Hint: It's the console equivalent of a cult following.)
I own both, PS3 and 360. I like my PS3 better though. :<
Maybe that would change if I could play all the awesome japanese 360 games. Maybe...
I must say though I thought my Wii would be my favorite my 360 and psp get the lions share of my gaming time which is odd cause i am a hardcore nintendo fanboy.
the only reason to buy a 360 is oneechanbara :D
Its not that I dont like the 360, but I much prefer the PS3 over it any day. Although it does make me happy to see America pwning Japan in gaming... in there own country.
Console satisfaction? More like smugness level..
Sales figures are much more representative :D
PC preferred to all of them though.
I bet that if there was a mac/pc poll macs would get hyped up similarly (by mac fanboys), even though it would be no where near representative of the population as most PC users probably wouldn't care enough. :D
japanese don't buy xbox because they are very prideful of their own countries accomplishments and creations.
but, i call that ignorance. and stupidity.
Screw capcom for opening pandora's (x)box.
its all thanks to star ocean 4
I think once DX11 Direct X, well the program of it comes out I think it would aid game developing and probably more so thanks to OPCL(Open Code Langaue). I think it (may??) help the PS3 out for programming scalable multi-cores and beyond when devoloping games. Which means they only have to write algorithms once and not have to rewrite the WHOLE algorithms again for every 2 years when more cores augment 2,4, 8, 10, 12+, and focus on making a good game and fans. They can program it as it was single core instead of programing as it was a 7 core. Which makes it is easier(static/cycle if you ever programmed). Which also means people who were hesitant in jumping into developing on the PS3 may feel some relieve just a little bit. With PS3, has some new ties with NVIDIA in recent news (May 17-21?,2009) about something the Phsyx but that is only a "sugar coat" their is probably more than what the news headline addressed. CUDA, OPENCL, things under the table, something.
Oh I heard that PS3 has scaled from 65nm to 45nm with their processor. Yet I heard they close some plants in Europe in making the chips. Well I'm not sure what's going on with Sony over at Europe.
Source:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10198809-64.html
Ive always been a playstion fan i have all the consoles but whn i got my 360 i realised i play that one more playstation only wins with the controler so #60 is defianetly better
this is an interesting turn of events
We don't care about them either. But we realise that if they do well we'll get more titles. Especially the ones which might have been exlcusive to other consoles.
Thus if you can't afford all consoles, you want those you don't own to die horribly. Logical self interest there.
Its funny how people act as if they were part of sony/msoft/nintendo. Sorry to say to burst your bubbles, but they don't care about you at all, they care about your money :D.
Ah but it makes their egos feel better to think they're important. The only real people who benefit are the large companies with brand loyalty.
Not into western games or Idolmaster, so i stick to computers when it comes to Microsoft.
At first this kinda came as a surprise to me, then I realized that the sytem has the largest selection of games. The PS3 has yet to find it's place in the gaming community and almost anything that comes out on the PS3, you can get on the 360; plus the games that are exclusive to the 360.
that and the fact that some rumours are circulating that the PS3 are getting less and less support that Sony because they have to cut losses. Thus buyers are scared that their system will not be supported by Sony by the end of next year
Why do they call it xbox 360?
this is conspiracy!! O___O
Because that's it's name?
Because when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away.
Walk 360 degrees. So, you just walk right back to it then?
turn 360 degrees and walk away huh? wow, damn, go back to math class.
If you turn 360º you will be facing the same thing again...
DING DING DING we have a winrar!
No, because when you buy it, it breaks, you send it to Microsoft (180) and then they send you another one (full 360) that will one day break down in a miserable way.
hey /b/ I need your help
I accidentally my 360
what should I do...is this dangerous?
wait, doesnt that make you turn back towards the console?? XD
You moonwalk away XD
Michael Jackson can turn 360 degrees and walk away.
Called the moonwalk.
Lawl, Best Internet Quote of the year..!!
Turn 360 degrees and you still be facing the Xbox 360.
Bah! You and your silly Euclidian geometry.
I approve of this pwnage.
u best be trollin
Amen. You only walk away if you turn 180 degrees.
Shoo.
Turn 360 & still wonder why it still exists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfnftRIHxZE
6:18-7:00
Tony Vivaldi: What is this, Benedict? First you're my friend; now you turn a... 360 on me!
Benedict: 180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin - *180*! If I did a 360, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started!
Tony Vivaldi: What?
Benedict: Trust me!
Heh. I heard this same comment on youtube a few weeks ago. Are you trying to turn it into an internet phenomenon?
Because Microsoft believes that the world revolves around them.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/mistergua/XB360.jpg
HAHAHHAahah LOLOLOL MOAR POINTS FOR U!
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL INDEED!!
This chart fails, since you can't be unsatisfied with the DS.
100% proven truth.
Its as such because the install base is so small, if it had the install base of the other consoles it would even out a bit more.
Its just sad that all almost all jrpgs are released on xbox...
Why is it sad, its cheaper and does what it's supposed to do play games.
It is sad that Japanese gamers have to buy non-Japanese consoles to play Japanese games...
Jews already had the PC market since the NEC PC-98 days, so why do they have to invade the console game market now???
As far as I remember Microsoft did only recently fell into Jewish hands...
Heh. Figures.
If anyone can't tell WHY this data is misleading...well, shame to their math skills.
hmmm.. staisfaction?
not for long!
I lol'd.
I rofl'd
I Roflmao'd
i chuckled, then went back to halo 3...
specialist buyers... that happens a lot.
I have no problem believing it.
Reliability has been getting better.
It's easy to hack and most games are multi-platform.
There is not much to dislike.
I pirate the damn thing with no remorse whatsoever.
I hate the brand, or better yet, allow me to rephrase that, i hate that brand policy and way of conducting business.
there, that sounds a lot more accurate.
The only money they got from me was from the buy of the console itself, and that's it.
Fuck'em.
As far the X360 goes, i am Darth Vader.
For the PS3 i pretty much only have the exclusive games, and the games that i truly want to play online, therefore its not difficult at all to be and stay legit.
Not even the recent new of "jailbreaking" the PS3 have drawn much attention from me.
And for the PC, i'm very proud to say that some 99% of my games are legit.
the only ones that aren't are rather old games that i love but are very difficult to find on sale.
I truly care for this platform and do my best to support it.
On the PC, more than any other platform, i am a Jedi.
Microsoft on the other hand can eat shit and die for all i care.
P.S.
Sorry about the Star Wars reference.
It's cliche'd out but it does helps get the point across.
Isn't it all thanks to Shoko-tan?
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/03/18/play-with-shoko-tan-on-xbox-live/
guess so
Seeing as how it's got the best gaming library i don't think it's much of a surprise, although the Ps3 is starting to catch up now.
The Wii has some epic games, but most of the third party developers still can't seem to get off their arse and make some decent games for it instead of porting old crappy ones with Wiimote functions...
Or making ones without any redeeming content whatsoever and are presumably well-deserving of the title "shovelware", though most do seem to be Western games for Western audiences.
thanks for bringing up this never-ending discussion/bickering/bitching between ps3 and xbox again ,artefact, tho i know you'll say "people enjoyed themselves tremendously",
lol
dam sTreIGhT we do. (on another note ps3 wins)
People do enjoy these kind of interminable debates, don't they?
And it seems you enjoy these debates as they bring in readers.
I'm also curious about what their sample size was for the survey and the demographic they chose. Without that info, I'm going to say this is going to serve as huge flamebait for the Sony/MS console worshippers on those gaming forums/websites.
Thanks in part to Shoko-tan, big name JRPGs going to the system exclusively or timed, and other misc. games such as Idolmaster or Ace combat that saw the light on the 360 but have yet to be on the PS3.
Sales figures tell much. And besides, who can believe in Famitsu anyways? They have strange review scores, and their reviews are often times hard to swallow. They'll give some games high scores 37+ / 40 which score like 65% when reviewed by other editors, while some games scored low by Famitsu 26-30ish / 40 are given much praise and love by others.
They're really a mixed bag.
Perhaps this is because Famitsu's ratings aren't actually based on how much money the developer or publisher has plied the reviewer with, as often seems to be the case.
Yay for PSP that ranks 2nd in both charts...
Oh...off topic.
Well it is a survey after all. Most of the people that participated are probably srs gamers so non-nintendo systems would fair better. Still glad DS is selling so well.
I am not convinced =/.
Adjusting in sales perspective.
More users are actually satisfied with the DS (3.6(is this in percent?) of 20m+ users is actually quite big. While the x360 is only 4.2 for around 1m sales is =/.
I believe adjusting it via numbers would make the chart like DS>PSP>Wii>PS3>x360 =/.
Kinda funny the only guy I really know in Japan has an XBox 360... though he's not japanese.
I assume with those numbers, only people who have lots of reasons bought an XBox 360 in Japan.
Like fans of exclusive titles.
With that in mind, even if you get an occasional RROD, it probably wouldn't be much of a problem...
NOOB WII!
360? IN JAPAN!? OVER MY DEAD BODY!!!
*Goes rambo*
I really don't i possessed PS3, 360 and DS lite, i am a very happy person.
Its ME again. I meant i really don't mind about the ranking or what ever. I am glad that i possessed three of the consoles.
Chances are they if they got a 360, they are cursing the dominance of the other 2 consoles, and the decay of the Xbox in Japan. Thus, they are hyping the survey up with over-emphasised scores.
That and maybe people are cursing at the price they paid for a PS3, thus the slightly lowered score. But my understanding (from Japanese friend) is that Consoles are cheap in Japan.
But who knows, I DO enjoy my 360 more than my Wii...
i thought it was because you get 360 degrees of red lights dam
Actually the most infamous error is the one where only 3 of 4 lights are red, the "general hardware failure" message, often covered for repairs outside of the standard warranty. That would be thus 270 degrees of red lights.
not to mention microsoft extended warranties and fixed red rings for free.
where as PS left all the disc read errors without fixing them.
Yayoi.. Mmmm
I've heard you can actually stand a loli on an XBOX and no damage will happen to it.
original xbox thats true ive had a 6yo loli jump on mine and it didnt even freeze be it shes tiny as fuck.
I don't understand it. Why the hell is it named 360? My theory is that they thought the first console(which sucked ass by the way)was good, so they went back to it by naming it '360'. Oh, and if anyone tells you that the ps3 copied the xboxthreeshitty controller, tell them that they're a fuck-face, and point at the sega-dreamcast controller. There is no doubt that xbox got their idea for a controller from them. ps has had the same buttons for... forever.
"ps has had the same buttons for... forever."
And that's exactly why the Dualshock3 sucks.
That design wasn't made for today's gaming consoles.
It wasn't even made for analog sticks, those were just added as an afterthought.
Just hold the controller in your hands and tell me where your thumbs naturally fall on.
Yes, the X, [], /\, O buttons and the D-Pad.
Now tell me what you use most for most games.
Yes, the left analog stick and those 4 buttons.
So why is the D-Pad in the place the analog stick should be?
Because Sony just added it to the existing design, when the analog stick first came out.
And besides, it's not a matter of where you get the ideas for a controller. What matters is that it fits well in normal hands and that you play with it even for a prolonged time period. And the 360 Controller is just the best thing out there at the moment. And I'm not a fanboy, I own both consoles and regularly use both. The PS3 is a wonderful console, but they have to get rid of that old controller design for good. It's 15 years old and totally outdated.
The PS3 originally had that boomerang controller, but all you crazy fanboys wanted to keep that outdated Dualshock design.
Who knows, maybe that boomerang controller would've been crazily ergonomic! Maybe it would've been the best controller ever made.