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

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

In favour of Sony: PS3 reached its first real sweet spot recently, so it has more potential for sales boosts.
Against Nintendo: Wii was affordable since the beginning and already had several Mario games, so die-hard Mario minions should already have bought one and a new Mario game, despite selling an awful lot of copies as it will, won't move many more consoles than usual.
In favour of Nintendo: we're talking about Japan, so, if we aren't Japanese gamers, and with strong Japanese market analysis skills too, we cannot really tell very much for sure.

  Wii had other 2D Mario Platformers, where?

Can't you read? I wrote Wii already had "several Mario games", NOT "several 2D Mario Platformers". Are you really persuaded die-hard Mario fans are refusing to buy a Wii until a 2D Mario platformer is released? Wasn't any previous Wii Mario game enough to make them buy the console? How many die-hard Mario and Nintendo fans do you know that won't buy a Wii until NSMBW is released?

Obviously, like any big game, it will move some HW sales, but I wouldn't expect miracles. I'm not 100% sure, anyhow, like I wrote too, I don't know Japan, so there could be something I don't know in NSMBW that would trigger Japan sales, but I'm pretty sure It won't be Mario minions waiting for it to buy a Wii.