Consoles are dead in Japan?

[Oyvoyvoyv]

I'm a bit shocked. Suddenly people are saying that MS is stupid for trying to attract a dead market in Japan, because consoles are dieing there.

I thought that the person who wrote this was a complete moron, and so did many others. Here's my way to prove him wrong.

Look at the first 2 years in Japan. Wii and Ps3 aren't there yet, but I'll compare this even though it is unfair to those 2. I take away the same amount of time from their competitors. 

Wii 94 weeks sales: 6.76M

Ps3 97 weeks from launch: 2.36M

X360 104 weeks from launch: 0.51M

Overall: 9.63M

 

Now go to last generation.

Ps2 94 weeks (unfair, it has a slight 2nd holiday boost, Wii doesn't): 6.6M

GC 97 weeks: 2.31M

XB sales: 0.43M

 

Excluding the Dreamcast (1.8M in 104 weeks), they're selling spot on with each and every.

 

Software wise:

Wii: 23.6M

Ps3: 6.75M

X360: 3.23M

 

Compared to last gen:

Ps2: 22.4M

GCN: 10.9M

XB: 1.0M

 

Excluding the Dreamcast (6.8M), the total is once again almost spot on. The Wii is outpacing the Ps2, and the X360 is heavily outpacing the XB. The Ps3 is almost following GC.

 

So as a matter of fact, the console market has shrunk minorly. In a way, the poster I talked about was correct, as the handheld market is increasing at more than 100% HW wise.

 

I only posted this to get some statistics into this heavily speaked of point.