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FinalEvangelion on 09 March 2011
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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)

Since when has Wii been Japan's market leader?

Since it's the highest selling console in Japan for the gen? I'm obviously not talking about handheld devices. :S

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).

No, it isn't "deceptive" at all. On home console sales in Japan, Wii leads the pack (and by quite a bit), but has dropped the worst over the course of 4.5 years. That's what the point was after. Everything else is either redundant or irrelevant.


Agreed.  You really can't spin it any other way.  The Wii was definitely the market leader for home consoles.  At the beginning of the generation, there was always talk about how many games were announced for HD consoles only because they didn't know when development started how successful the Wii would be.

 

I always imagined the Wii to be a successful, but shorter lived console compared to others.



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