Surprising Wii drop, but I guess having no game in the holiday lineup with near the power of NSMB will do that.. DKC Returns is a huge game, but moreso in the West, and still doesn't touch its popularity worldwide.
It is interesting to see the two lowest performing consoles worldwide at the top two spots in Japan (if you split up DS models at least). Interesting how Japan seems to see-saw back and forth from Nintendo to Sony over the past 15 years. Now they seem to be drifting more towards Sony products again, at least for the time being. But a large part of that is the lack of third party support for the Wii and thus lack of new games being cranked out that could maintain momentum. For reasons unknown to me, the PS3 seems to be far less affected by lack of games. Perhaps because of the Blu Ray?
Basically what I see happening is PS3 beating Wii the vast majority of weeks this year, but considering sales for hardware all around will likely be small and thus the margin of its lead will be as well, it won't matter much in the grand scheme of things. During the holiday season 2011, Wii could and should gain back most of its ground lost to Sony during the other 10 months of the year anyway.
