why didnt nintendo release pokemon worldwide inline with the japanese launch?

surely all the ds consoles sold this week will damage any 3ds purchases within the next 18ish months

OTOH LBP2 wouldn't even exist if LBP had bombed. and 1 million in just under a month is a pretty good start. But I agree things are a tad slow for an excellent sequal to a >4 million selling game. Some of the UGC for LBP2 is brilliant. Some of the zombie survival levels are pretty frantic, and some of the competitive levels are a ton of fun. Online play can be frustratingly, even game ruiningly, laggy at times, at other times it's smooth as silk.

I think Wii has expanded the saturation point by about 50 million. And with developing countries increasing in wealth there's even more potential for market expansion over the previous generation. Still the great majority of home consoles have already been sold this generation, and the consolez warz is being fought on a rapidly diminishing battlefield. I think this gen can sell another 50-70 million consoles before it's tapped out. So, 2-3 years. It could last a bit longer for PS360 if Pachter's fabled "Wii owners wanting to upgrade to HD" are real and not just a myth. Though Wii2 HD will do the trick just as well.

I think he's still in bed or something. The numbers did come pretty late.

When does GT4 enter the holiday season?

Did you look at the full WW chart for this week last year? This was the FFXIII launch. Of course this week is going to be a tough comparison for the HD consoles.

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Are you talking about home consoles overall? Last week PS3 was only down about 23k, and the week before that it was actually up YOY by 25k. And 360 has obviously been pretty consistently up by varying degrees. Wii is the only home console that's shown truly significant and long-term decline this year.

Good 360 and PS3 sales, with price drops later on in the year both systems should be up YoY by the end of the year, Wii sales seems to be laging behind -- i expect a price drop to help a bit and a strong holiday season but at the way its going it is going to be outsold by PS3 and possibly 360 aswell ! All in all i wonder if this means that we might see Wii drop below 40% market share in 2012.

My crystal ball is in the shop for repairs so I cannot see the future, but why do I have to justify myself?  Someone else already mentioned a potential PS3 pricedrop which sounded reasonable.   And you're not fooling anyone.  The PS3 is currently outselling all home consoles.  Deal with it.  Oh, I take that back.  You are dealing with it by raining on the PS3's parade.  Downplay, baby.  But don't you yourself personally think that the Xbox 360 should be outselling the PS3?

kind of a boring week,It won't be boring next week once the 3DS comes out in America.