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From "TheSource" at 17:47 on 1/08/08:

Bruce what do you make of Japan where PS3 is available for $367, Wii is available for $230, HD adoption rates are far higher than in the West, and DS and Wii still dominate the hardware and software charts? Nine of the top ten titles in Japan were on DS or Wii in 2007? I would argue part of it is the absence of strong competition from the Xbox 360, but at the same time, how dominant does HD have to be for the switch over to strong PS3 sales to occur if HD-rates are already 40-50% in Japan?

 

 

 

From "Sulllah" at 15:50 on 1/08/08

Hi Bruce and welcome to VGChartz. I've tried to give you the benefit of the doubt here, but your arguments are getting less and less convincing. Your assertion that the Wii will slow down and stop selling soon would be a lot more convincing if this were 2006... but unfortunately it's not 2006 anymore. It's 2008, and we've consistently seen the Wii (dramatically) outsell its competition, in every region, at pretty much all times.

You may not know this, but your arguments for why the Wii will suddently stop selling are exactly the same as what we've been hearing here at VGChartz for over a year now. We had some older forum-goers named Kwaad and Hus who insisted, over and over again, that people would stop buying Wiis as more HDTVs were sold. That certainly hasn't happened so far. One reason some of the responses here are getting prickly is because this topic has been debated to death already.

It comes down to this. On the one hand, we have 14 months of HARD sales data, in which the Wii has been successful everywhere and has become the fastest-selling console of all time. On the other hand, we have vague theories and speculation that at some indeterminate date in the future, it will lose popularity and stop selling. Which do you think is the more likely scenario, based on the facts that we have at hand right now?

You really, really haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about.

The PS3 has vastly more processing power than the PS2, more memory and a hard drive.

It is not just graphics that are better but also key elements such as physics and AI.

This is why the PS3 will, ultimately, blow the Wii away. The Wii is more comparable with the PS2.

Statements like this rapidly undermind credibility in the poster. Graphics, physics and AI, "memory and a hard drive" all have absolutely nothing to do with a console's success in the marketplace. This has long been established; stop thinking in terms of system specs. What sales data do you have that would indicate that the PS3 is going to magically overcome a 10m deficit in units? I've watched the sales charts here for a year now, and I've yet to see much in that regard.

 

 

 

 

 

Could you respond to these posts please? I would greatly appreciate it! As Sulllah said and I would like to reiterate, I'd be very interested if you have any sales data or statistical analysis of any kind to support your position. That isn't intended to be insulting: I really would be interested. Thanks in advance!