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Zuhyc on 22 August 2010
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I'm still shocked that PS3 beats the Wii in Japan, considering Wii seems to have a lot more types of games that appeal to the Japanese crowd these days. I guess it's just reached its saturation point.


What? the PS3 has had  a much more steady lineup than the Wii. If anything im surprised the wii still levels off at 20k. 


Wii is cheaper this year than last year though

So is the PS3 :P but the PS3 is having a bit of a Euphoria of software these past 8 months... however it looks like it will stop right around the holidays

I think PS3 in 2011 looks solid-ish, at least for tentpole games (Ninokuni, FFvsXIII, FFXIV, MVC3, SFxT/TxSF, MGS Rising, TLG, etc).   Comparably Wii really only has 3 standouts (Zelda SS, Mario Sports and DQX) though they're all arguably bigger than most/all of PS3's games.  360 meanwhile gets the multiplats, the niche shmup/galgames and The Idom@ster 2.

What's looking really barren in 2011 though is DS/PSP.  DS has literally nothing and PSP has just Agito, and that's nearly vaporware at this point.  3DS is really sucking all the oxygen out of the room, I think it's going to kill JP development entirely on DS/PSP/Wii within it's first year.  The HD twins will get by with engine recycled sequels somewhat, but expect a lot of original games that would've normally gone to them head to 3DS instead too.  

I think the first few months will be decisive for the 3DS. If it starts well devs will massively jump on it. Combine it with no competition from Sony/MS, and we might be getting an awesome line-up of games. Hopefully, Nintendo won't become arrogant again and doesn't ask too much royalties.