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PS3 Missed Ship Targets, Loses Exclusives
Sony's having a rough week. After shootings on launch day and a harsh review from the New York Times, Bloomberg is now calling Sony out as having completely missed its shipping targets. The analyst company says there may have been as few as 50% of aimed-for units available, and that the company may only get about 200,000 units to stores by the end of the year (something Sony flatly denies). PS3 fans now also have to deal with the fact that Koei is cross-platforming two previously exclusive titles. Fatal Inertia and Bladestorm are now in development for the 360 as well, marking the latest in a string of titles that have slipped away from Sony. There is some consolation for the company to take away from this week, though. They did better than Microsoft last week in Japan, with around 81,000 PS3s, 19,000 PSPs, and 16,000 PS2s sold to a mere 4,000 Xbox 360s and ... 4 Xboxes.
Don't get me wrong, but where do you draw the line between xenophobia and Japan just being...well..Fing WEIRD. Like I said, don't get me wrong. I've got nothing against Japan, but hell. Their tastes are so "excentric" (from our perspective) that without inside information from someone who understands Japanese culture, I don't know if it would be reasonable to expect anyone to be able to tell when a Japanese consumer won't buy something because it's not Japanese, or if they won't buy something because they just don't like it. Doesn't that essentially equate to them not liking stuff because it's not Japanese???