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bardicverse on 08 July 2009
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Ail said:
bardicverse said:
When the PS3 outsells it for 6 months straight in the US. Half a year of the 3rd place console leading over the current leader would be enough to say that the Wii has lost its power to draw in more gamers.

You might ask why I don't consider it in trouble now, so I will answer simply this - the Americas market has traditionally and continues to be the most viable and profitable market in the game industry. What happens here influences all of the western devs, and makes eastern devs wary of bringing a game overseas. With PS3 and XB360 both selling lower on a weekly basis than the Wii, I would say that Nintendo's position looks solid for a while yet.

What I will say is that if the PS3 dips below the 30K/week mark in the US at this stage, it will have lost more steam than the GameCube did last gen in the same timespan. I truly wonder if the PS3 will continue getting support if they can't get their numbers back up before the holiday season.


That was true when the dollar was strong.

That's not the case anymore.

Euro market is actually more profitable for foreign companies due to stronger Euro than Dollar...

The Dollar has lost 50% of its value in the last 6 years...

From what I recall, the euro was initially balanced stronger from the dollar from the introduction of the euro currency.  I could be wrong, that was a while back.

If what you say is accurate, then you're implying that the dollar exchanged at 1.42 to 1, or 42 cents higher, euro to dollar conversion, as it currently sits at 1 to .72   This makes me question your numbers. I will agree the dollar isn't as strong as it was prior to roughly June 2008, when the first signs of the economy failing started to show. Yet, all of the currencies took a global hit since then.

Yet, this is irregardless of the market, as by volume, more software is sold across all platforms in the American market than the EU market. Thus, volume is what the industry is focused on, how many units sold, which is pretty much the premise of this website. Even with monetary fluctuations, the sheer volume of product sold in the US offers a wider profit margin than the EU market does. America is a consumer nation, which is why China loves us so much. We keep importing their crap.