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call them crap if you will hus but your saying the ps3 will start taking over once good jap. games start coming out on it. Unfortunately for sony thats what nintendo do best and ninty haven't even released any software that they no will sell like hotcakes in japan(not including wii sports and play as they were unproven system sellers before they where released)



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looks like "hus" is frustrated because the wii is selling well iam really amused



Vienna said: looks like "hus" is frustrated because the wii is selling well iam really amused
fads always dominate the market... then they dies a fast death.



Hus said: Vienna said: looks like "hus" is frustrated because the wii is selling well iam really amused fads always dominate the market... then they dies a fast death.
I give up. (points to top of main page and yells) scoreboard



sorry - can someone explain me the word "fad" ? fad in german language means boring ... but in english ?



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jstam said: call them crap if you will hus but your saying the ps3 will start taking over once good jap. games start coming out on it. Unfortunately for sony thats what nintendo do best and ninty haven't even released any software that they no will sell like hotcakes in japan(not including wii sports and play as they were unproven system sellers before they where released)
didnt the past two NIn console have the same stuff.



Vienna said: sorry - can someone explain me the word "fad" ? fad in german language means boring ... but in english ?
A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.



Hus said: Vienna said: looks like "hus" is frustrated because the wii is selling well iam really amused fads always dominate the market... then they dies a fast death.
how many times has that happened to a game console? Also the Wii sold 131,000 games this week while PS3 sold 26,000, nice argument. Wii didn't even have a game released this week. Not only that but there have been many weeks where PS3 hardware outsells the software. For example week ending January 21st PS3 sells 24,000 systems and 21,500 games. In comparison that week Wii sold 200,000 games and 86,000 systems. Just for fun we could also look at overall software sales with wii at 4,380,000 while PS3 has 1,078,000. Oh, and the gap doesn't seem to be closing. But apparently people are only buying the box.



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Hus said: jstam said: call them crap if you will hus but your saying the ps3 will start taking over once good jap. games start coming out on it. Unfortunately for sony thats what nintendo do best and ninty haven't even released any software that they no will sell like hotcakes in japan(not including wii sports and play as they were unproven system sellers before they where released) didnt the past two NIn console have the same stuff.
Didn't the last two playstations sell better?



Hus -- you are blind. You are missing the point, there are no japan system sellers for ps3 forecasted in the foreseeable future. However, there are plenty for the Wii. That will only continue to drive sales for the Wii and keep it at at least a 2:1 sales lead over the ps3 for the remainder of the year and will probably grow to similar levels as the DS. People like you kept saying wait for Gundam, wait for this and that. But, as each game came it sold like crap. All the while the Wii fad games keep in the top ten. You mention that RPG games require great graphics, what about FF12 on the PS2 or any DQ game. Hell, the next DQ game is going on DS hardware. That obviously won't be pushing the limits of modern graphics. Why? Sales base. The good games will drift to the best sales base. The next to DQ games on the DS and Wii will do very well, and then the next few DQ games will be on these systems as well. Then there's the other huge RPG, FF. FF13 will be on the PS3. It will help them, but that is what 1.5years away. After the DQ9 and DQSwords comes out they may drop it and move it to the Wii. It hasn't been in development for that long, has it? Basically, the PS3 will never catch Wii in Japan UNLESS it has a phenomenal 2008 in released Japanese oriented games. I don't see that happening as the DS and Wii are dominating Japan and any dev would be stupid to ignore that.