Wall Street Journal: Nintendo starts to cool down

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I thought the anecdotal evidence showed the state of japanese games market pretty well. People moving from home consoles to handheld ones.

Is Wii Sports bundled in Japan too these days, or did the article just jump to west and was the attach rate WW or japanese? It could have been a little more specific.

The decline in Japan is a fact, but i think the article made a few misconseptions. The decline in Japan is due to people moving to handhelds, and i'm having hard time to see the same thing happening in west, since here we have a lot more room to grow, or a lot more people to buy different devices.

Then again, the article ignored upcoming software that may have a lot to do with sales this year. Although, as Ail said, it's quite hard to top MKWii, but we'll see what the Motion Plus can do. Maybe it's a bit too early to call this year out yet.

@Avarice: Lack of polish is something you can't blame Wii Music of. It's very polished game. The games problem lies in its songs. Although there's plenty of them, they range too much from one end to another, when there a few good songs to everyone, but not much more for individual. I wouldn't be surprised if we'd see something like "Wii Music Pop", "Wii Music Rock" or a Nintendo game music themed Wii Music, would be a great idea, that would definately sell lots of copies even if the size of the songlist would be half of Wii Music list (but as a specialised list it would have more content for people who like the kind of music). If Wii Music had the songlist of Brawl, the game would already rival Wii Fit and MKWii.