Its not Wii owners who are threatened by PS3. Wii owners KNOW that Wii is gonna win this gen. They just take the piss out of both MS + Sony.

360 owners are the ones afraid/threatened. Its obvious, Xbox cant make a dent in Japan. Its WAY cheaper in Others and only just keeping above PS3.
NA is 360 territory, but yet again... what will PS3 do there when the eventual pricedrop hits?

@Khuutra

"PSP's Second (Japanese Wind)

"The bestselling Japanese game last year was for PSP: Capcom's Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G with 2.45 million units. Other high-profile 2008 titles like Dissidia Final Fantasy and Phantasy Star Portable have passed 800,000 and 600,000 units respectively -- no chump change in a country where sales of 100,000 is considered a sizable hit. As 2009 dawns, it's all but official: In the handheld centric Japan, PSP is the de facto choice for the traditional gamer. Quite a stunning comeback for a platform steamrolled by the DS, which began in late 2007 with the simultaneous release of Crisis Core -- Final Fantasy VII and the "Slim & Lite" PSP 2000. For almost all of 2008, PSP was the bestselling game hardware week over week, and as a result core gamer-targeted software is being announced for the platform in droves. Whether or not the PSP's second wind will waft its way across the Pacific to American shores nobody can say, but at the very least some Japanese developers will be freed from pop candy happy family pastel DS edutainment a go-go."
--Nick Des Barres or Nick Rox Play Magazine Japan Editor from the article Trends of 2009. Play Magazine Volume Eight Issue 4 pg. 24

Now a lot of Nintendo fans are saying, "Oh, the DS will be back to its old ways once DQ IX releases." And I will say that more than likely DQ IX will be gigantic; however, it was announced a long time before anyone ever thought the PSP would have this meteoric rise its been enjoying in Japan. And Final Fantasy XIII and the two Kingdom Hearts games headed over to the PSP ( and maybe Parasite Eve 3 too) will not be slouches in anyone's eyes. They will sell far more than any jrpg has on the 360. So what happens if following the release of Agito, it is announced that either Final Fantasy VII Remake (a distinct possibilty since Crisis Core was on there) or Final Fantasy VI-2 are announced to be coming exclusively to PSP? You would see PSP dominate handheld sales in Japan and a large increase in its profile in the West as well.

The game that is really going to count between Wii and PS3 is Kingdom Hearts 3 and if it is a PS3 exclusive, it is going to be the game whose sales will really shake up this console generation.

You realize the DS is outselling the PSP in Japan on a weekly basis, right?

And that the gap there is still in the neighborhood of 13-14 million?

And that developers are selling to current owners and not just new buyers?

The PSP will not catch the DS in Japan. Do not be absurd.

      Last week the PSP outsold the DS in Japan and the week before that it was the DS.  They pretty much take turns each week with one being the leader and the week after that the other one being the leader.  The PSP with the games I mentioned above can pretty much establish itself as the weekly leader in Japan from now until the end of the gen much like the PC Engine did to the NES and the PS3 can still do to the Wii.  It wouldn't be catching per se, but it would be leading.

as Pristine said...
Popularity bodes enemies. Sony held the crown for 2 generations straight. The PS2 made gaming mainstream, achieving the most consoles sold EVER(more then any in the history of gaming,check wiki). Bitter Dreamcast, XBOX, Gamecube fans, and the like all have formed union on trying to bring the PS3 down.

When the PS3's sales were not as expected by Sony, these people were the first to get their kicks and jollies in. THey relish in the fact that the PS3 is in 3rd.

Now that Sony and the PS3 are back on the right track, they are desperate. Desperate to find the negative in all this positive energy. You want games?Sony is giving us more games then ever thought possible for it. You want features? Sony has designed the PS3 in a way that it acts like a blank slate, that way whatever we ask for they can manipulate it into our wishes. Now that Sony has done those things the last standing argument is price(which differs in opinion) and the system sales (when once upon a time we as gamers didn't care about sales 0_O?).

You are confusing "leading" with "some word that dosn't mean leading".

The PSP will never provide Japanese developers with an installbase like that of the DS. It will not happen. To that end, it is always going to be better to put games on the DS, at least in terms of return-on-investment.

No number of imaginary games will have the same impact on the Japanese buying trends that Dragon Quest will have.

      I will bet you 1,000 VGChartz dollars that PSP will sell 70,000,000 or more units ltd.

This has absolutely nothing to do with what we're talking about.

But if you mean in Japan? Sure. You're on.

      No, I mean worldwide because you seem to be rather emphatic in your statement that PSP will never be a huge success.

Do not be absurd. The PSP is already a success. What I said was this: