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Louie on 20 December 2007

Source: gamefront.de (translated)

 

Japanese magazine Famitsu asked 280 consumers and 64 shopkeepers about business and games in 2007.

 

Question 1: What´s your hardware of the year?

 

Shopkeepers:

1. Nintendo DS (40%)

2. Playstation Portable

3. Nintendo Wii

 

Consumers:

1. Nintendo Wii

2. Nintendo DS

 

 

Question 2: Who was the most important person in the videogaming industry this year?

 

Shopkeepers:

1. Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo)


2. Hironobu Sakaguchi (Mistwalker)


3. Akihiro Hino (Level 5)

 

Consumers:

1. Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo)


2. Saturo Iwata (Nintendo)


3. Akihiro Hino (Level 5)

 

 

Question 3: Which developers impressed you the most in 2007?

 

Consumers and Shopkeepers:

1. Nintendo


2. Capcom


3. Square Enix


4. Sony


5. Level 5

 

 

Question 4: Which game did you like the most? (consumers only)

1. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)


2. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (PSP)


3. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (NDS)


4. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP)

 

 

Looks like 2007 was pretty split-up between Nintendo DS, Wii and PSP.

What are your thoughts about 2008? 



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StarcraftManiac on 20 December 2007

Japan = Nintendo.

Europe = Nintendo.

America = Nintendo.

Australia = Nintendo. 

Hey, wait a second, there's nothing big left really! ...

 

I kinda expected this outcome, how strange hu? ...



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Kasz216 on 20 December 2007

Huh. More consumers picked the Wii over the DS. Perhaps console gaming isn't dead... just HD gaming hasn't hit yet in ironically the most HD country in the world.

Or they used a small sample size.



kirby007 on 20 December 2007

psp does doing pretty good, probably because they ask the same kind of people



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Kasz216 on 20 December 2007
kirby007 said:
psp does doing pretty good, probably because they ask the same kind of people

It's a top 3 in a 5 system race., almost no one has a PS3 yet... and 360. This is japan. Therefore the PSP has to do well by default... until very recently it was basically 3 in a 3 dog race. Now it's 3 in a 4 dog race. As for why the PSP is ahead of the Wii shopkeepers wise. The handhelds give retailers a higher profit per system sold to my knowledge.

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Louie on 20 December 2007

And the PSP saw a great boost from the new Slim and Light model, keep that in mind guys. The last 3 months where highly sucesful for the PSP hardware... sad the software doesn´t sell, I like the system.