Is the end of Wii finally beginning in Japan?

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ClaudeLv250 on 13 March 2009

I came here to roffle at the subject but instead found myself entertained by the desperation behind merging the sales of all platforms that aren't made by Nintendo despite the fact that they're clearly not the same entities.

Everyone wants to pretend PS3 and 360 are one and the same when it comes to sales but the second they start to actually follow that mantra and start sharing games with Final Fantasy XIII going multiplat, all hell breaks loose.

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mmnin on 13 March 2009

They really should just bring out Wii 2, I mean Wii is hardly selling anything anymore. :p

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Zlejedi on 13 March 2009

People in Japan finally noticed there are no games on Wii :)

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Yugemos on 13 March 2009

With RE5 out now, there's nothing in the immediate future for any of the systems. The only release over the next 3 months that might actually sell is Monster Hunter G Wii. Yes, the Wii ain't selling too hot now, but the others are gonna plummet right along side it.

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Zlejedi on 13 March 2009

Yugemos said:
With RE5 out now, there's nothing in the immediate future for any of the systems. The only release over the next 3 months that might actually sell is Monster Hunter G Wii. Yes, the Wii ain't selling too hot now, but the others are gonna plummet right along side it.

In next three months Sony gets PS3+FFXIII+FF movie bundle pack which will easily counter any impact MH Wii may have.

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Jo21 on 13 March 2009

^and FF13 by the end of the year and maybe gran turismo 5 if released in 2009 it will be japan.

and if possible a good price cut.

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Galaki on 13 March 2009

I heard FF13 is going to be released in the same week as Duke Nukem Forever.

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wfz on 13 March 2009

Sharky made an absolutely horrible assumption when he thought that sales from one competitor would go to another if one entered/left the industry.

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angrypoolman on 13 March 2009

sharky974 said:

twesterm said:

lol you can't combine the 360 and PS3, unless you want to combine the Wii and DS since those are both the casual markets.

And being able to walk into a store and buy the Wii isn't the end of the Wii unless you can say the Xbox 360 died in 2006 and the PS3 died early 2007.

False.

PS3 and 360 are essentially the same experience, just a slight variation on it. Most people will only buy one or the other.

One of the reasons Wii's "dominance" has been I believe vastly oversold while hardcore gamers are shortchanged is the simple fact that for sales numbers the hardcore/hi def market is divided in two (PS3 and 360) while the causual/waggle market only has one contender.

Imagine if the situation were reversed. Let us say PS3 was never released, so at least 80-90% of PS3 buyers each month would likely buy a 360 instead. Let us say also Apple had introduced a waggle console. Lets say we see this typical monthly NPD today:

Wii 600k

360 300k

PS3 200k

In the no Ps3/Apple waggle scenario, it would look like this:

360 500k

Wii 350k

Apple Wagglebox 250K

Nothing actually changed but I'd be willing to bet the mainstream pundits would have a massively different view on things. Suddenly the 360 would be portrayed as dominating and the Wii and Apple console as failures. When really nothing at all changed regarding the casual versus hardcore market share. The casual was simply split in two as the hardcore is today.

Also besides all that, if you add the DS to Wii then you must also add the PSP (it is more of a non casual "system") to PS3 and you lose even worse lol. That's just stupid. Leave handhelds out of this.

that is the most retarded thing i have ever heard