For the past couple weeks the PS3 has beat the Wii in sales in Japan. If this keeps up, the PS3 could start to catch up with the Wii in Japan. So my question is will the Wii be able to get its week-by-week lead back and secure its position as the primary home console of Japan, or will the PS3 make a comeback of sorts?

I think the main factors in which consoles win in Japan rely pretty heavily on which console has an abundancy of JRPGs. This year the Wii had many JRPGs announced for it, such as Arc of Fantasia and Tales of Grace. Though recently some JRPGs have been announced for the PS3 like End of Eternity and the must-have Tales of Vesperia. Also note that the all-powerful Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII Versus are coming to PS3 in the future.

And the reason I think the 360, though having many JRPGs itself, does not sell as well as the Wii and Ps3 in Japan: Microsoft isn't a Japanese company.

What do you think?

probably not without a new pricing strategy from nintendo. To beat sony nintendo either needs to cut the price or bundle the wii with some games or a controller or something. Then we would most likely see the wii beat the PS3 once again.

That is untill FFXIII and a price cut happen for the PS3 :)!!!!

the wii is ahead by like 5 million in japan

the ps3 have been winning lately in japan
but not by alot

so.... if the trend continues, the ps3 could reach the wii by.... june! 2011 xD

DQ is just about 10% more popular than FF, plus DQX won't come out before 2011 at least. Great chances it will be eclipsed by FFXIII compilation, or ported to the PSP...

I expect Wii to end with about 12m sales on Japan, and the PS3 about 8m...

Wii has a lot of big Japanese centric games coming out - MH3, DQX, ToG
Plus they could cut price, colours, etc.

On the flipside - it is concievable PS3 could continue to compete well against Wii with week by week sales leadership flipping back and forth but for PS3 to ever overtake the Wii's lead completely the Wii would have to completely die out.

I can buy that

 Hey, it could be a DS-2 launch title 

Yeah... i can buy a DS port..... not a PSP

how in the hell did you get to that conclusion?       Lets say the Wii sells 0 consoles from this day forth, at only 20k a week for the PS3 it would still take 5 years to catch the Wii.  There is a 5 million difference you know.  So more like 2014