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Tyrannical on 15 April 2009

The Wii was never particurarly popular in JP. It just looked that way because the other consoles were even less popular.



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JRPG on 15 April 2009

There is no one left in Japan to buy the Wii.



Louis277 on 15 April 2009

Consider no price cut, no new color models and Wii sold approx. 8m in Japan for 2 years time, this is impressive !



Kantor on 15 April 2009
JRPG said:
There is no one left in Japan to buy the Wii.

The PS2 sold three times in Japan what the Wii has sold so far.



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stof on 15 April 2009

So wait, I still want to know how the hell the Wii is selling so well in Japan right now. What is currently moving consoles out the door?



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Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!

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WhiteDevil on 15 April 2009

@Stof

Wii Sports?



jlauro on 15 April 2009
stof said:
So wait, I still want to know how the hell the Wii is selling so well in Japan right now. What is currently moving consoles out the door?

 

The Wii games with legs (>40 weeks and still in the charts).  From last week:

1
Wii Fit
Nintendo 71 11,974 3,331,962
5
Mario Kart Wii
Nintendo 52 6,290 2,200,594
7
Wii Sports
Nintendo 123 4,773 3,520,928
15
Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball
Nintendo 42 2,081 264,029
16
Hajimete no Wii
Nintendo 123 2,027 2,714,542
19
Mario Party 8
Nintendo 89 1,539 1,452,072


woopah on 15 April 2009

nintendo needs those big third party games. surprising, the territory its doing worst in is the one where its getting the big series



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Zeethr on 15 April 2009

"unhealthy state" nuff said.



Arius Dion on 15 April 2009

The funny thing is, as unhealthy as the Wii's state is it is still selling close to 20k a week. PS3 had huge blockbuster hits and is now slowing down as TheSource said. WSR along with whatever else Nintendo has planned could see Wii back to a "healthy plateau" Iwata himself said Nintendo is poised to to revitalize the Japanese market anyway.



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If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.

If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.