*Will Microsoft ever have the best selling console in a generation?*

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Squilliam said:
Japan is quickly becoming an irrelevant market. The population is dropping, the importance of handhelds is increasing and canibalising the home console market. As the markets in the rest of the world expand I bet that by the middle of next generation there will be no 'Japan' row in the Vgchartz home page.

Indeed, I don't get all this "you need Japan", not at all, it's around 13% of total Wii/PS3 sales .. if you have a massive hit in America, that can overcome Japan with ease.