There you go. Japanese gamers, for whatever reason, are swayed by game releases a lot more than American or European gamers. Besides, even if the Wii's release list is slim in those regions, people will still buy it for the main Wii titles (Wii Sports, Play, and Fit). I imagine that a lot of people in Japan who don't own Wiis have experienced the popular Wii games for themselves or played them heavily with a friend, and thus are less likely to buy the Wii.Being that Japan is so crowded, that's really the only explanation I have. I couldn't explain it otherwise.

I think the Wii should be pretty safe after passing 70 million sales, and I predict them to pass 100 million in late 2010 or mid 2011

gaming in japan has been sour for a while.
it had nothing to do with wii or nintendo.

just look at all the consoles..

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Isn't the range between 15-20k a week where the Wii was settling in dry times anyway? It just looks worse when the PS3 is over the top, but i remember when the PS3 set down to around 9k a week for a while, and the 360 was down at like 5k

Wii isn't doing especially bad, it just hasn't had anything to really move units. Evergreen effect doesn't work in Japan, a much more volatile market.

I didnt know that about the Japanese market I genuinley thought it was a trend.

No. That may be the Wii's dry range, but that's still not a good range to be in. The Wii is down 29k year over year, and that's one of the more generous decreases. Considering that so many people criticize the PS3 for having a slight year over year decrease in America, this should be very worrying.

I posted this somewhere else, think it's some nice info to have here.

Others + Americas sales in Q1 2008:

3324K

Q2 08:

5094K

Q3 08:

4039K

Q1 2009:

5108K 

(2008 out of christmas average: 4152K)

It's only going down in Japan because of the lack of games being released (1st party, and JRPGs in particular).

I doubt it will go down noticeabley in NA anytime soon.

Didn't they say the same thing when mgs4 came out in japan. Ps3 beat it for 4 or 5 weeks then everything went back to normal. I guess when the next big ps3 release comes out and the ps3 outsells the wii you will hear the same old thing wii is doomed then 4 or 5 weeks later it's back to normal. I remember gameinformer said the same thing about 360 when mgs4 came out and ps3 outsold 360 by kind of a big margin in that month oh man 360 is doomed. Point is wii isn't going away anytime soon