Perhaps. If the Wii continues to widen the gap right now which I think will happen. I do not pretend to understand the Japanese market as it is not anything like the U.S. market. What I do know is that whatever factor that is affecting the Jap. market is clearly driving the Japanese to buy the Wii. Maybe Nintendo realized all of these factors and crafted the Wii specifically for Japan. Now, looking at things the way it is now, Japanese developers who are developing games for the PS3 must make sure it will cater to Western markets or else they might run into trouble on they will run into trouble on the home front. However, games that the Western population likes are known to score big in Japan...

a game can never have 100% attach rate only unless its bundled on all regions its whole life time

 So it'll have a weaker version of the Wii's lineup?  because Wii will have Nintendo games and a lot more older games, and a lot of third party causal games, and some hardcore games, while PS3 has only a few causal games and mostly third party hardcore games, i don't need to be fro mthe future, just have to be able to see trends

 And so that was my point, no game ever appeals to the full userbase, which is why you need a very large and varied library

 In terms of predicting the future, you are the one who thinks the PS3 will be dominant once again just because the PS2 is. The fact that Sony is trying to bring the PS3 all of the games you're mentioning shows that they have realized their mistake with the PS3 not that the games you're mentioning will somehow lift the PS3 to first place. The success of those games are rather debatable. But the fact of the matter is, Sony released the PS3 in fierce competition with MS and Nintendo and for every actions Sony makes, Microsoft and Nintendo will respond it kind.

not all for example dragon quest and monster hunter,capcom made a good desicion and put it on wii because its majority of sales are on japan.

and now square enix has to think carefully where to put it and the best bet would be wii because dragon quest also mostly sell in japan.

so japanese developers can get a huge hit if they dont release theyre games on the right platform because not all of them sell good on the west

i know but i was saying that GT is a system seller even though it only had a 15% attach rate

 A system seller to the hardcore yes, but not to wider market Wii is targeting

All the article proved is that some people lack vision.
(That same statement also applies to many posters).

The PS3 is a very technologically advanced system. It is built for 2009. Unfortunately, it was released in 2006. That means that for roughly half its life it is going to be bleeding edge. And a lot of people stay away from that.

The Wii is a wonderful system to play but does have two shortcomings. It cannot produce graphics as good as the other two systems out there. It gets a lot of junk produced for it by third-party developers. ... Both of these were the characteristics of another system -- the PS2.

Mike from Morgantown

If we believe in history repeating itself let's look at history.. No console maker has EVER had more than one - two victories in a row I'll illustrate

Geneisis - Sega CD
NES - SNES - N64
Atari 2600 - atari 5200
Gameboy - Virtual boy

If we truely believe in history as the be all to end all sony couldn't win this generation thankfully history can be bunked Wii may very well latch it's victory and ride it for a while, at best PS3 would look to surpass it late 2009, and that's providing the Wii suddenly started selling 50% what it is now and PS3 doubled.. The PS2 had several advantages that the PS3 simply cannot afford and Blu ray won't help it's value like DVD did the PS2 because average consumers don't even know the difference and when they do they generally see no point to the medium. With DVD vs VHS there was a clear benefit to everybody with blu-ray vs dvd there's not a clear difference to average Joe Six-pack.