Mr Khan, it seems all these sites decided to 'pass the ball from the PS3 to the Wii', if you know what I mean.

Instead of mocking him, we could answer his post with an analisys of how the PSP is doing in the West, since by this thinking, it should be starting to do better in the Western martkets, since it showed it's tough competition in Japan.

So, for now, it's premature to make this afirmative. The PS3 could start selling better? Yes, with a price cut, but it wouldn't botter the Wii sales, since they don't share the same demo(mostly). So the pS3 would rise, but the wii would stay the same, so it wouldn't pass it's sales.

In Japan, The PS3 didn't rise that much, the Wii fell that much, that's happened. If the Wii stayed at 2008 levels, the PS3 wouldn't pass it, even with the last weeks software boosts.

It's possible that the Japan trend spreads to the rest of the world? Yes, if Nintendo don't release big hits like the next Zelda, and PS3 gets a price cut, but it's unlikely that Nintendo won't provide it's champion with good software in the next year, they must be holding back the announcements to the E3.

Each week I keep checking the sales numbers, waiting for these articles to be proven right..........

Oh.....what do you know, looks like the Wii is still outselling.....EVERYONE!!!!!!!

Why is this even posted? StarScream, you have a knack for finding and posting these types of articles lately...

But anyways... Wii hate week continues.

This.

Was.

Funny.

It is amazing, how most of these articles suddenly pretend that Wii was doing "average" until now, so now it is "below average." To them, a console that is not selling out constantly, doesn't triple the sales of the competition, and only makes a few billion dollar profit per year, is "crashing".

Of course, this would make all the other, less successful consoles "below terrible", but let's just ignore this part, because "game industry is doomed" wouldn't sound that awesome.

Odd, this guy. WW sales indicate that the Wii sells on par with the HD consoles combined, if not above. Thus, if the Wii sales are indicative of a crash, then it is an overall console market crash.

Look at it this way, when MS finally buys out Yahoo, this guy will be canned and we won't have to listen to such uneducated tripe.

Japan is no longer reflective of the gaming world. If it was FPSs and the 360 would all sell abysmally and the PSP, Monster Hunter and DQ would be huge in America.

People are so quick to jump right back on that Wii is a fad argument.

However, if mainstream papers start proclaiming this, Casuals may listen and you have a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nintendo may not have the luxury of waiting until June and E3 for Wii Motion Plus, Wii Sports Resort to re-invigorate interest.

Agreed.

If Japan was the harbinger of the games industry we'd have A LOT more western support for the Wii.

No, but I'm becoming weary of all these articles talking about something they know nothing about.