Psp is beating Nds cos the system sellers like Brain training, english learning softwares are in japanese, once chinese version will be out, nds will beat psp, cos like japanese, all parents want their children to be smart.

http://digi.it.sohu.com/20070321/n248872715.shtml

this is the link from the one of major site in china, it is in chinese, translator might help.

Wii are selling well there, I've bought mine in shanghai 6 months ago, I've asked the vendor ( it is basically a small stand in a big shopping center), he said he sell 1-2 psp daily, during weekends, holiday even 15-20, and there are many places like his shop in china.

It is not shipment, every console in chinese market  is Contraband.

Just two questions...  How much did you pay for your Wii and did it come pre-modded?

They sell only modded for 2300 yuan, around 300$. I heard some rumors about  D2C mod chip, it costs 3000yuan modded, 400$.

China is going to be a huge market, no question. Average per capita income is around $2500, and the cities are three times as rich as the countryside, so city incomes are around $5000. Since China is 43% urbanized, that means a potential market of 560 million people.

The real barrier isn't hardware, it's software. $50 price tags for discs are waaaaaay too high. Nintendo will have to offer discount software prices - most of those modded Wiis, incidentally, are modded to include free copies of games. Think about it: if you earn $450 every month, after paying the bills you won't have more than $45 to spend anyway. So the cost of a videogame shouldn't be more than $4 or $5.

I'd imagine that only first party software would be sold there. No T-P is going to publish in China

It's a problem China needs to face. They want to be a first world company with global cooperations but with piracy so accepted how can any real businesses survive there? It's like a kid saying he wants the worlds largest collection of Lego's but at the same thime this kid loves setting his Lego's on fire. Something needs to change.

Well if the big publishers aren't going to publish the games. Expect Chinese publishers to arise from the ground with names like Manco, Cabcom, Squale Enxi, Seaga, Conamii, Hudxon, AE sports...

Expect some new names to arise from China and compete with the Japanese. In a few years from now we will be talking about the next big games of those publishers instead of the new Square Enix game, imagine that!
Also the Japanese and others will be forced to create truely creative new games because the chinese will do the rip offs anyway.