Do you expect the next Wii to get the 'main, big' 3rd party titles en masse?

[Ail]

Gnac said:

Ail said:

I'm not sure I understand the comment I highlited.

After starting a lot stronger than the PS2 in Japan, the Wii has seen it's early lead compared to the PS2 erroded and is now selling a lot less than the PS2 was at the same time in its lifecycle.

 

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=Japan&cons2=PS2&reg2=Japan&cons3=PS3&reg3=Japan&weeks=156

 

Things to note:

• The PS2 launched in march in Japan, Wii launched in december
  
• The graph shows aligned launches
• Those jumps in each line show the festive sales boosts

 

 

True :)

but if you look you see the PS2 has no jump at all for its first holydays period, which is why the Wii passed it by such a huge margin ( my guess is that it was even more supply constrained than the Wii was), following that however the PS2 slowly is catching up...

The big factor I think is the slope of the curves outside of holydays period.

The PS2 seem to follow the trend :

Year 3 > Year 2 > Year 1.

The Wii so far is doing Year 1 > Year 2 ( and year 1 was supply constrained, year 2 wasn't ).