"Lull" in the Japanese gaming market...

[DMeisterJ]

Sqrl said:

DMeisterJ said:
@Deguello

The people who are saying that Japan doesn't matter anymore, or the lull or whatever have already done Nintendo numbers but here they are...

Earlier this year, the Wii routinely pulled in between 60,000-80,000/week and in recent weeks it's been in the 20,000 range.

The DS was routinely pulling in numbers greater than 100,000/week, and it's been in the 70,000-90,000 range recently.

I was only posting positive numbers so that people knew that even though the Wii and the DS hardware sales have fallen, other systmes are rising... hope this helps :)

 In the interest of accuracy the Wii has never had a week below 20,956 in Japan according to current VGC numbers.  A more accurate reporting would be that it has been between 21-30k over recent weeks. 

 

Anyways, I'm trying to sort out what you are saying.  Are you saying that you think other consoles have been returning to normal while the Wii stays where it is or just that handhelds have been returning and the consoles are staying relatively the same? 

First, the "20,000 range" is from 20-30 thousand so 20,956 falls in there...

To help you sort this out.  There have been posts about Japan not being important to the gaming industry and other posts about the Japanese game market lull, etc.  I was just trying to see what everyone was talking about so I went to see the numbers for myself and these were my findings.  I just wanted people to know that while the DS and Wii may have fallen in sales, there are still a number of systems that are doing better now than a couple of months to a year ago.