This topic was started by a.l.e.x59 in the wake of the PS3's two weeks of success outselling the Wii in Japan. Make no mistake, that was a very nice achievement that Sony can be proud about. Unfortunately, however, it was only a temporary blip in the overal trend of sales data. The PS3 and Wii have now been on the market together in Japan for 58 weeks... and the Wii has sold more units in 56 of them (often by a VERY large margin). That's pretty clear-cut.
The PS3 isn't going to dominate the Wii. How anyone can possibly think this is beyond me. This has nothing to do with ideology; we've got 14 months of sales data accumulated now since the systems launched alongside one another. The Wii has consistently outsold the PS3, at all times, in all regions. It's almost TEN MILLION units ahead. The PS3 has NEVER outsold the Wii in America, in ANY week, EVER.
To deny this is to live in some sort of fanboyish dreamworld. It's just as silly as saying that the Gamecube would "dominate" the PS2; by December 2002, it was extremely obvious that would never happen. Five years later, it's just as clear that the PS3 will never dominate the Wii. Stop thinking in terms of ideology and just look at the sales data.
End of 2008 totals: Wii 42m, 360 24m, PS3 18.5m (made Jan. 4, 2008)
