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Xbox 360 | PS3 sales spike 288% in Japan, no US FFXIII demo on Blu-ray

 
Enterbrain credits JPRG demo for two-month sales jump; producer Yoshinori Kitase says 360 version preventing sampler coming to the states with Advent Children Blu-ray. Over the past two months, Famitsu publisher Enterbrain reported that the PlayStation 3 outsold the Wii in Japan during March and April . Today, the company told Yahoo Japan a major reason the two-month period saw PS3 sales spike 288 percent year-over-year was the April 16 release of the Final Fantasy XIII demo. A sample of the widely anticipated Japanese role-playing game was included in the Blu-ray disc Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete , which features the 2005 computer-generated film based on the titular game. The PS3 won't get a pick-me-up from Advent Children sales. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that the PS3 will be getting a similar boost stateside. Following months of official silence from Square Enix USA and Sony Pictures ... (link)

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