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Zeus09 on 05 April 2014

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VanceIX on 05 April 2014

With all the great Japanese games coming out for PS3 right now, it'll overtake the PSP by the end of the summer.



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hated_individual on 06 April 2014

PlayStation 3 is still alive... Wii is dead for over two years....



radiantshadow92 on 06 April 2014

and this doesnt count digital sales which im sure the ps3 destorys the wii in



ParryWinkle on 06 April 2014

I'm surprised the PSP is still doing so well.



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AshKetchum1992 on 06 April 2014

The PS3 still gets many 3rd party Japanese games (while the Wii software support died some time ago) so it doesn't surprise that this happened.



DonFerrari on 06 April 2014

Until when will people use the "Just because it sold longer" excuse? Just aknowledge PS3 and X360 survived so much more than Wii because people kept interest in it for much longer and their platform owners respect their fanbase more by keeping the support longer (even if MS have less 1st parties and put more Kinect games than "core" for the last years, it kept the system alive and supported by then and 3rd parties).

If it was just because it was in the market for a longer period, NES should be the greatest selling of all time since it was still sold in Japan in the 2000's like for more than 20 years.



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AstroGamer on 06 April 2014
DonFerrari said:
Until when will people use the "Just because it sold longer" excuse? Just aknowledge PS3 and X360 survived so much more than Wii because people kept interest in it for much longer and their platform owners respect their fanbase more by keeping the support longer (even if MS have less 1st parties and put more Kinect games than "core" for the last years, it kept the system alive and supported by then and 3rd parties).

If it was just because it was in the market for a longer period, NES should be the greatest selling of all time since it was still sold in Japan in the 2000's like for more than 20 years.


NES is one of the best selling software wise in Japan. The PS3 still has a decent ways to go before it outsells the Wii. And it probably won't in America. And it isn't that likely in Japan since the generation shift will be starting soon there



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ParryWinkle on 06 April 2014
pezus said:
ParryWinkle said:
I'm surprised the PSP is still doing so well.

Well it's still getting some games, so I'm not that surprised

Yes but I thought Japan is now mostly interested in Tablet and Smart phone games.



SnowPrince on 06 April 2014
ParryWinkle said:

Yes but I thought Japan is now mostly interested in Tablet and Smart phone games.

I think the weekly sales say otherwise. 3DS and Vita are dominating the charts. It is true that the handheld market in Japan is on a relative recession compared to the previous ones, but is surely more open to them than the Western market.