{"id":7339,"date":"2011-04-11T18:04:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T01:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7339"},"modified":"2018-07-25T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T18:04:30","slug":"ps-move-sells-170k-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/ps-move-sells-170k-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Move Sells 170K in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/PlayStation-Move-S.jpg\" alt=\"PlayStation Move-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/>APRIL 11, 2011 \u2022 Research firm Media Create reported that Sony sold 170,000 PlayStation Move motion-sensing controllers in the Japanese market during 2010, compared to 90,000 Microsoft Kinects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: At face value this seems rather an impressive sales ratio. In reality, an almost 2:1 ratio is worrisome. During the average week consumers buy between 20,000 and 25,000 PS3s in Japan. The Xbox 360 has never been a huge seller, averaging under 5,000 units sold per week. Japanese consumers purchase one-fifth, or fewer, Xbox 360s than PS3s, yet that smaller market share is producing sales 53% as good as Sony&#8217;s device is generating. Sony should be selling many more Moves in Japan.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 11, 2011 \u2022 Research firm Media Create reported that Sony sold 170,000 PlayStation Move motion-sensing controllers in the Japanese market during 2010, compared to 90,000 Microsoft Kinects. Impact: At face value this seems rather an impressive sales ratio. In reality, an almost 2:1 ratio is worrisome. During the average week consumers buy between 20,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,168,273,78,74],"tags":[432,174,450,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16641,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions\/16641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}