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FinalEvangelion on 26 January 2011
forest-spirit said:

Damn, Japan is crashing!


Yep.  Not looking too good.

Likely Result:  An even higher percentage of shooters :(



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yo_john117 on 26 January 2011

Wow some pretty big drops, and it will only keep going down.



Moren on 26 January 2011

ATROCIOUS Wii sales, these aren't even decent, they're really lame.



yo_john117 on 26 January 2011
morenoingrato said:

ATROCIOUS Wii sales, these aren't even decent, they're really lame.

At least they are not as bad as the Xbox 360's!



Metallicube on 26 January 2011

Wow, home console sales are in a miserable state in Japan. You have Wii which is freefalling and no third party support, Xbox 360 which never took off to begin and has basically been dead on arrival in Japan, and PS3 which sells decent to mediocre hardware numbers but doesn't sell software.



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Moren on 26 January 2011
yo_john117 said:
morenoingrato said:

ATROCIOUS Wii sales, these aren't even decent, they're really lame.

At least they are not as bad as the Xbox 360's!

It's a different situation.



postofficebuddy on 26 January 2011
morenoingrato said:
yo_john117 said:
morenoingrato said:

ATROCIOUS Wii sales, these aren't even decent, they're really lame.

At least they are not as bad as the Xbox 360's!

It's a different situation.


As ridiculous as it might sound I fear Wii might end up pulling 360-like numbers at some point this year. Especially if there's nothing to buoy sales during the slow summer months. Last year I assumed things wouldn't be very good for the Wii in Japan in 2011 but I didn't think sales would decline this quickly. I pictured it would be something like a handful of sub-10k weeks and the majority in the teens and low 20ks. But the way things are looking now a lot could be sub-10k.



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Metallicube on 26 January 2011
postofficebuddy said:
morenoingrato said:
yo_john117 said:
morenoingrato said:

ATROCIOUS Wii sales, these aren't even decent, they're really lame.

At least they are not as bad as the Xbox 360's!

It's a different situation.


As ridiculous as it might sound I fear Wii might end up pulling 360-like numbers at some point this year. Especially if there's nothing to buoy sales during the slow summer months. Last year I assumed things wouldn't be very good for the Wii in Japan in 2011 but I didn't think sales would decline this quickly. I pictured it would be something like a handful of sub-10k weeks and the majority in the teens and low 20ks. But the way things are looking now a lot could be sub-10k.

Well I don't fear that, and I'm a huge Wii fan.. I mean you are right it probably will happen, but at this point in the game it doesn't really matter.

Software sales matter just as much if not more at this point, and it certainly has the software sales, far more than PS3.

It had a great run, for being Wii's weakest market of the 3. Japan as a viable gaming market is dying anyway. And PS3 will follow shortly after, it is already just behind Wii in decline.



yo_john117 on 26 January 2011
morenoingrato said:
yo_john117 said:
morenoingrato said:

ATROCIOUS Wii sales, these aren't even decent, they're really lame.

At least they are not as bad as the Xbox 360's!

It's a different situation.

Still though it could be a lot worse for the Wii.



bluthunder on 26 January 2011
yo_john117 said:
morenoingrato said:
yo_john117 said:
morenoingrato said:

ATROCIOUS Wii sales, these aren't even decent, they're really lame.

At least they are not as bad as the Xbox 360's!

It's a different situation.

Still though it could be a lot worse for the Wii.

Not really, even xbox 360 has a better line up in Japan this year than Wii. Third party developers have abandoned the Wii, and Nintendo is putting their efforts behind 3DS.

Wii is dead, at least xbox 360 still gets new shmups and ADVs announced for it.