IN JAPAN (FORGOTEN TO BE MENTIONED IN TITLE)

What do you think ?

after kirby 's launch unable to boost Wii a lot 

PS Move on the way 21st of October

Gran Turismo 5 in november for ps3

Tales of Graces f in december for ps3

can Wii reverse this ?

nope

Ps3 is king for 2010!

__________________

And welcome back!!!!!!!

It won't.

Well...

Red Wii and Mario could save the Wii I suppose.

After that Wii only has Donkey Kong... But Kirby didn't do much, and the Wii will already have a whole bunch of 2D Platforming gold. Hard to see it affecting much at all if Kirby didn't even cause a small spike.

PS3 on the other hand has Move, Gran Turismo 5 and... Tales of Graces F

Looking like a PS3 victory, but Wii will have a great boost in December anyway. Gonna be close!

2011 is looking like it will be PS3 > Wii for sure though!

Maybe Kinect will sell amazingly in Japan, and push 360 to number 1? Just maybe...

Considering that the Wii had no real competition in Japan for awhile, it sold a hell of a lot at the beginning (The PS3 was too expensive for the maintream Japanese gamer and it didn't have many quality games then. And the Japanese mainstream snubbed the Xbox because it didn't have enough name power. Tales and Star Ocean isn't enough. And people expected these games to be timed exclusives. Even before ToV launched on the 360, there was speculation that Namco would pull a Tales of Symphonia and port it to PS3.)

Now that there are like 9m Wiis in Japanese homes (saturation) and the PS3 has a competitive price point and library, demand for the Wii has slowed considerably.

If Nintendo wants the Wii to be more competitive in Japan, they need more third-party support on the console. Third-party support for the DS is ultimately what kept the PSP in second. The PSP was a serious threat for the DS in Japan, often overtaking the DS at times. But Nintendo made some strategic decisions (DSi) and the third-party support helped it stay competitive to the PSP. Lack of third party support is the main reason why the N64 and Gamecube lost badly to the Playstation brand in Japan.

That all said, there is one major difference for Nintendo this gen compared to last gen in Japan: The Wii has freakin Dragon Quest this time. That's the big X factor. I'm certain there are plenty of Japanese gamers who love Dragon Quest that haven't bought a Wii yet. The Wii is going to get a huge (but temporary) boost when DQX comes out.

Are you serious???

[Put here the picture "Are you serious?"]

It ain't over until it's over!I still have hopes! And the Wii still has some cards under the sleeve...

I think PS3 will be ahead of Wii every week in Japan.

If PS3 is on top next week than I think it will. I still think Wii will win every week of December except GT5 week but not by a large enough margin to claim victory overall for the year. Once this weeks numbers go up PS3 will be ahead by about 40k and if PS3 wins next week than I think the advantage could be close to 100k by the end of November. If GT5 comes in the first week of December I think PS3 could be on top by as much as 100k that week.