It's good for Sony, but I know that Nintendo is not down and out. Once Nintendo stops waiting for its 3rd parties, things will go back to the way they were.
| CHYUII said: It's good for Sony, but I know that Nintendo is not down and out. Once Nintendo stops waiting for its 3rd parties, things will go back to the way they were. |
Only the future can tell us that. The gaming industry, like life itself, is very hard to predict!
| Garcian Smith said: Even if the PS3 managed to outsell the Wii by 5000 units every week in Japan, it'd take close to 1000 weeks (or about 18-19 years) for it to catch up to the Wii in that territory alone. |
Catching up isn't the point, that will never happen. The point is that the PS3 has been outselling the Wii for the last 2 months, which clearly show the PS3 is a healthy system in Japan (as healthy as a console can be anayway).
The point is more that the Wii is experimenting the biggest YoY drop in sales in console history ( aside of course from console that suddenly stopped being sold by retailers).
PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !
PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !
| Ail said: The point is more that the Wii is experimenting the biggest YoY drop in sales in console history ( aside of course from console that suddenly stopped being sold by retailers). |
Seeing as it's also by far the best-selling home console in history, that's not even remotely as devastating as you make it sound.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
Garcian Smith said:
Seeing as it's also by far the best-selling home console in history, that's not even remotely as devastating as you make it sound. |
It is not in Japan.
The PS2 has sold more console there than the Wii can ever hope too.
The current trend is starting to make you wonder if the Wii will outsell the SNES too.
The NES looks out of reach for the Wii too.
So at best the Wii is fighting for the 3rd best spot there..
PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !
PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !
| Valkyria00 said: For a month due to Resident Evil 5 and Yakuza. Hooray for Sony. Lets see what MH3 will do for the Wii. |
For two months.
And it looks like it'll outsell it for April too.
outlawauron said:
For two months. And it looks like it'll outsell it for April too. |
I think that it's fair to say that that is quite likely!
Ail said:
It is not in Japan. The PS2 has sold more console there than the Wii can ever hope too. The current trend is starting to make you wonder if the Wii will outsell the SNES too. The NES looks out of reach for the Wii too. So at best the Wii is fighting for the 3rd best spot there.. |
And how is that bad?? The Wii will still be the best selling console ever when it passes the PS2. I am sure Nintendo right now are shaking in their pool of money about an insiginificant region where they lead by 2:1 in sales over the competition combined.
All the home consoles are doing crappy.
Look at it this way, WiiPS360 were a team and the Wii was carrying most of the burden of a losing team, now the Wii stumbles and trips and now it's going as slow as it's teammates. That's not a good thing, if the Ps3 was selling 30k like the Wii was doing before that stumble then fine, it could be argued that the Ps3 is doing well in a strong console market, but right now they are all losing.
That's the big picture.
I'm just not certain if it's healthy for japan to be focusing so much on handhelds, because video games are from Japan.
I'm Unamerica and you can too.
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