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Oyvoyvoyv on 21 January 2009

Wow, interesting.

 

Looking at the whole picture:

 

SW:

Machine - 07 - 08 - increase/decrease

 

DS - 37.32M - 26.45M - minus 30%

Wii - 11.9M - 13.5M - + 13.4%

Ps2 - 10.4 - 6.2 - minus 40%

PsP - 5.68M - 8.95M - + 58%

Ps3 - 3M - 5.25M - + 75%

X360 - 1.35M - 1.85M - + 37%

 

 

Looking at it like this, amazing news for the PS machines (the Ps2 drop was expected). Good news for the X360, and pretty bad news for Nintendo. DS drops a lot (it's a lot lower than both 06 and 07), and Wii has too small an increase.

 

Still, is that correct? No, not really.

 

A comparison as to how many owned the console (although at the end of the year, gives a skewed conclusion. It gives a rough estimate, and it's vague).

 

DS - 1.1 games/machine

PsP -  0.8 games/machine

Wii - 1.8 games/machine

Ps2 - 0.3 games/machine

Ps3 - 1.9 games/machine

X360 - 2.1 games/machine

 

So really, the DS is still doing better than the PsP (despite the PsP being the one with the grandest games for the year), and Wii is doing equally to Ps3/X360 (more machines = lower rate, being slightly lower is expected).

 

So it isn't that the Wii/DS is doing worse than expected (well, maybe a tad), it is that the PsP/Ps3/X360 are improving, compared to how lousy they were last year (again, compared to Wii/DS).

 

And yes, after reading what I wrote, I see that nobody asked this question... Why the heck did I answer it?



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zleep on 21 January 2009

I dont know but it seems that the tides are turning in Japan. HD consoles are gaining ground over the Wii while PSP is gaining ground over the DS. It will be interesting to see how 2009 will be. I'm willing to bet that PS3 will come very very close to the Wii and both PS3 and the 360 combined may be able to outsell it HW and SW wise.



FishyJoe on 21 January 2009
zleep said:
I dont know but it seems that the tides are turning in Japan. HD consoles are gaining ground over the Wii while PSP is gaining ground over the DS. It will be interesting to see how 2009 will be. I'm willing to bet that PS3 will come very very close to the Wii and both PS3 and the 360 combined may be able to outsell it HW and SW wise.

 

Not quite. The other consoles are losing less ground to the Wii, but they are still losing ground. The same goes for the PSP vs DS, the PSP is still losing just by a lesser amount than it used to.



Aj_habfan on 21 January 2009

I like the adds connected to your article, lol.

 

Good for PS3. It will increase this year for sure as well.



zleep on 21 January 2009

FishyJoe, thats my point. They are closing the gap, plus PS3 has a really strong year next year, I think that at least on the home console side, HD consoles will come really close to the Wii.

DQIX will of course make it not happen, but PSP has FFXIII, it should be a good contender and DS is at a saturation point already.



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outlawauron on 21 January 2009

Ouchie for Japanese publishers that aren't called Bandai namco.



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FishyJoe on 21 January 2009
zleep said:
FishyJoe, thats my point. They are closing the gap, plus PS3 has a really strong year next year, I think that at least on the home console side, HD consoles will come really close to the Wii.

DQIX will of course make it not happen, but PSP has FFXIII, it should be a good contender and DS is at a saturation point already.

 

Since when was the PSP getting FFXIII?



zleep on 21 January 2009

Agito FFXIII I mean.



outlawauron on 21 January 2009
FishyJoe said:
zleep said:
FishyJoe, thats my point. They are closing the gap, plus PS3 has a really strong year next year, I think that at least on the home console side, HD consoles will come really close to the Wii.

DQIX will of course make it not happen, but PSP has FFXIII, it should be a good contender and DS is at a saturation point already.

 

Since when was the PSP getting FFXIII?

It's getting Final Fantasy Agito FFXIII which is very likely to outsell FF XIII in Japan.



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Lucas-Rio on 22 January 2009
zleep said:
I dont know but it seems that the tides are turning in Japan. HD consoles are gaining ground over the Wii while PSP is gaining ground over the DS. It will be interesting to see how 2009 will be. I'm willing to bet that PS3 will come very very close to the Wii and both PS3 and the 360 combined may be able to outsell it HW and SW wise.

 

 

I don't get your point. The Wii is  gaining ground every week compared to PS3.  It is the same for the DS, every year, the DS has gained ground compared to the PsP.

The thing is that Nintendo consoles has a very huge gap over the consoles of Sony  in the total amount.  The PSP will never be even close to the DS hardware total and software total.  The same thing can be said with the PS3, who has no chance to catch the Wii total.