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Words Of Wisdom on 21 September 2007
Sqrl said:

As per my standard rules for trends if it doesn't improve in the next 2 weeks numbers then its an issue. I always go by 6 weeks before something is a trend. I have consistently used it for all consoles.


Good rule.  I'm also hesitant to make a judgement on this as it feels far too early to be doing such. 

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superchunk on 21 September 2007

Meh, it just slow. No big games, no price reduction, what would you expect. There is no exceptional reason to run out and buy a Wii in Japan right now.

From what I can see in my separate excel file, all consoles have dropped of at a similar rate.

Last month percentage drop:
Wii = 29.1%
360 = 28.5%
PS3 = 4.4%

Projected this month
Wii = 47%
360 = 34%
PS3 = 33%

Now, 360's may be less when Halo 3 releases. I am not sure how much it will affect Japan. Either way, Wii's has had the most significant drop, but I would argue that this is simply due to lack of any big title releases and there aren't really any games being released until Nov 1 (Super Mario Galaxy). Next in Japan is Opoona on Sept 27th, then literally no games until Nov 1. Expect the Wii sales to continue to have slight drops until then.