Based on the sells that I have been keeping up with, it's over everywhere else, too.

I mean "over" as in we know for sure who will be first, second and third. It just happens that in Japan, second and third place are not very far apart.

PS3 isn't dead in Japan. Its normal average is 40,000 units a week. Its been pretty low the past 2 weeks, but way too early to determine its future in its home country. It is still the most expensive console and Japan's gaming market is in a strange place right now. It seems to be handhelds or nothing. The Wii is having nice sales because of Smash and Wii fit, but I expect it to die down. Remember when the PS3 was beating the Wii in November? No one seems to mention that. :(

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8166&Itemid=2

Don't worry about it so much. PS3 will do fine in Japan, it only looks bad now because its doing do well in the UK and the US right now. PS3's training wheels are almost off.

I don't know... Outside of America, things seem pretty set in stone to me. I can't possibly see anything coming close to the Wii anywhere. 

Yes, we remember when the PS3 beat the Wii for one week. We also remember that the 360 outsold the PS3 for one week.

We also know that in both cases, it meant nothing.

PS: Where did you get your "40,000" units a week average from?

Did you read the article? It was a whole month. And I was basing it off the sales on Vgchartz from Nov-Jan.

Japans Population = 127mil US Population= 308mil (Wikipedia)

Taking those Figures one would expect the PS3 sales to be 1/3 of sales of the United States. However Japans Population is aging so ence their are fewer perspective buyers and those who buy them may not have a lot of time. The PS3 Was Released in Japan 15 months ago on November 11th, 2006. The Console has sold close to 2mil. so by dividing the number by 60 we can see that the PS3 has averaged over 33,000 units a week in Japan. even at 19k and 20k like it has been going at this past month it is about equivalent to 60k in the states. While the Wii has done a lot of things right including its size and who it is aimed at it by no way means that the PS3 is dead in Japan.

Although I dont agree with Kallas posgt it could be said that in comparison to their own last gwen success the 360 has done remarkably well with a few games hitting tens of thousands units sold and they are obviously on an upwards trend.

The PS3 however is on a downwards trend and by saying Sony has simply dismissed Japan is nonsense as they were still tghe first country to get GT5 prologue and many other first party titles releaess as well as most if not all PS3 new SKu's or bundles there as well.

I do think it'll get bigger in Japan but there's a truth in it that Japanese dont take kindly to huge power consuming models and if it had been smaller then it would be more popular, saying that a new slim line model for the full GT5 game is all thats needed for sales to skyrocket in Japan.

The market in Japan is obviously turning to handhelds. Even Wii might have a hard time selling there like the previous generation did. When DS2 and PSP2 are launched I think there will be seeing phenomenal sales in Japan for both, not so much for the current and next generation of consoles. The rest of the world will follow that trend a bit later.