CGI-Quality said:
jarrod said:
CGI-Quality said:
jarrod said:
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This is a first for a market leader (again, if memory serves me right) 
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Since when has Wii been Japan's market leader?
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Since it's the highest selling console in Japan for the gen? I'm obviously not talking about handheld devices. :S
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Japan's market pretty much is handhelds now. Unlike previous gens, which supported both high selling home consoles (FC, SFC, PS, PS2) and high selling portable consoles (GB, GBA), this gen's gone almost entirely handheld (DS & PSP going strong), with all the consoles being varying degrees of failures.
Calling Wii a "market leader" is borderline deceptive imo. It's more like a novelty platform that took off for a brief while. PS3's pretty much been a (very expensive) failure and 360's like an abortion (though still at least an improvement from last gen).
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No, it isn't "deceptive" at all. On home console sales, it leads the pack, but has dropped the worst over the course of 4.5 years. That's all the point was after, all else is making a debate out of nothing.
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It's an arbitrary market distinction (rooted in an entirely western viewpoint), Japan doesn't view home or portable consoles in different categories these days. Japan's market leaders were platforms like Famicom, PlayStation or Nintendo DS. Wii is pretty far from that, not what anyone should consider a "market leader" this generation in Japan. At best, it's a semi-popular supplementary platform (though even there, I'd put PSP ahead of it).
