Wii 10 mln. or PS3 5 mln. in Japan. Who first?

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Viper1 said:
My bad. I completely forgot it was Japanese centric for a moment.

However there was no hardware boost because there was no increase in hardware volume for sale. They were also being held for Golden Week which was from Apr 29 to May 5. The biggest release during that period was Link's Crossbow Training but hardware went up from mid 40's to almost 70k.

MKWii opened to 580k in Japan and such little hardware impact wouldn't make sense unless the volumes were constrained. Even when selling to an already established fan base (like MKWii was) that small of a boost is unheard of. Other big titles selling to already established fan bases have typically still increased hardware pretty decently.

There is one other difference between MKWii and NSMB Wii. I've not known many of my gaming peers that were interested in MKWii that didn't already own a Wii but a lot of my non-Wii owning counterparts are definitely interested in the first 2D side scrolling Mario game on a home console in 14 years.

I believe the wii hardware shortage in Japan stopped around january/february 2008 so shortages are not the reason.

Wii sales went up during Golden week because well, it was golden week( harware sales go up every year during that week).......

Such a boost in not that unheard of. The week Wii Sport Resorts was released in Japan, Wii sales went up by 4k.....

 

It will provide a boost, but it will be more subtile and won't be a a MGS4 or FFXIII boost ( huge sales for 3 weeks and then sales back to normal).