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Zucas on 10 December 2008
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donathos said:
Zucas said:
It is quite a megaton but mostly for the Japanese market. I don't think too many are thining about Europe and Americas but simply Japan. Remember Wii has been struggling in Japan lately (despite still owning the other 2) and most have said its because of the lack of big games releasing. Well this is something to alleviate that. So when the market leader of the 7th gen consoles gets the second biggest franchise in Japan, it's usually quite a large announcement.

 

I hear ya'.

I guess I've just felt that the Wii slumping in Japan is less about a "lack of big games" and more about a philosophy shift away from home consoles and towards mobile gaming. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

 

Well it may have to do with that as well but Wii has a lot of lulls through the year which may be caused by lack of big games.  Wii has always gotten the smaller games that help to expand its library in Japan such as Klonoa and 428 which just released, but those are never your big sellers.  Now with MH3 and DQX in the pipeline this look like a pretty good lineup for the Japanese gamers trying to choose which console to get.  So it's starting to expand which will mean better sales in the present and the future.

But there is a noticeable shift away from console gaming to handheld gaming and this has to do with 2 handhelds that are dominant compared to 3 consoles which only has a semi-dominant one and 2 weak ones.  Something had to take over their slacking and PSP kind of did that.