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No one noticed? I predict around a healthy 9.5 million at the end of the year. Wii will likely settle around 13 million for good.

When will the PS3 pass Wii in Japan?



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Turkish said:

No one noticed? I predict around a healthy 9.5 million at the end of the year. Wii will likely settle around 13 million for good.

When will the PS3 pass Wii in Japan?

Probably never now.



Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet a time.

Will you stop it already? They already told you you are not supposed to be excited about the PS3 in the other thread!



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

kowenicki said:
pass wii? doubt it will

pass 13m? doubt it will

2009 was its peak year there.


It did a healthy 1.5 million in '10-'11, so far YTD PS3 tracks higher then last year.



Turkish said:

When will the PS3 pass Wii in Japan?

PS3 will continue to rise while the Wii will go into negative sales.

It will be slow. But by 2015, PS3 will have made it and outsell the Wii weekly, even during holidays.



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Machina said:

Gz PS3.

@your question - 4.3 million behind, with a current install base of 8 million after 5 years and 4 months, with a peak year of 2009. Never gonna happen.


At the end of this year it will be less then 3.5 million behind, 3.5 million over 3 years is more then likely. Never say never, you'll be disappointed lol.



Wii has Dragon Quest X. PS3 aint gonna catch it.



                            

considering the ps2 is approaching 12 years on the market and still going I think it's no doubt the ps3 will pass wii life time



Machina said:

Gz PS3.

@your question - 4.3 million behind, with a current install base of 8 million after 5 years and 4 months, with a peak year of 2009. Never gonna happen.

Yeah, that's how most of you base your analysis. By taking the peak year and relating it to whether it'll or not pass 13 million is a pure understimation. It'll happen. The Japanese market has already embraced the console owing to the core titles being released there on a consistent basis unlike 360 and PSvita which has been purely dismal.



RolStoppable said:
Carl2291 said:
Wii has Dragon Quest X. PS3 aint gonna catch it.

That's your reasoning? A game that will bomb spectacularly will secure the Wii's lead?



A game that will "bomb", but still give Wii that extra push to be uncatchable.