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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Bloodwake on November 30, 2007, 04:46:00 PM

Title: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of Nov.
Post by: Bloodwake on November 30, 2007, 04:46:00 PM
Possibly not as dead as we thought?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071130/tc_nm/sony_nintendo_dc_1 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071130/tc_nm/sony_nintendo_dc_1)

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii game console in Japan in November for the first time since the machines were launched late last year, a game magazine publisher said. Nintendo sold 159,193 units of the Wii in the four weeks to November 25, trailing sales of 183,217 units of the PS3, Enterbrain said on Friday.

(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka)
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of N
Post by: Bloodwake on November 30, 2007, 04:46:28 PM
Fuck, wrong forum.

Someone switch this shit.
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of N
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 30, 2007, 04:46:43 PM
Won't happen again in the next 6 months
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of N
Post by: hyp on November 30, 2007, 04:47:42 PM
didnt the 360 sell more than the ps3 during ace combat's release?  meh, i forget.  these things are so short-lived.
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of Nov.
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 30, 2007, 04:50:34 PM
I think what it comes down to is this. Japan is small. Wii sales numbers are HUGE. Wii cannot sustain those numbers in a small place like Japan since the Wii is old hardware that never breaks down.

I am not surprised people who own a Wii did not buy another, while people continue to buy a console that has sold poorly for a while now.
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of N
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 30, 2007, 04:50:50 PM
Wii has hit saturation in Japan it seems.
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of N
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 30, 2007, 04:54:23 PM
I think what it comes down to is this. Japan is small. Wii sales numbers are HUGE. Wii cannot sustain those numbers in a small place like Japan since the Wii is old hardware that never breaks down.

I am not surprised people who own a Wii did not buy another, while people continue to buy a console that has sold poorly for a while now.

Like the PS2?

*golf clap*
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of Nov.
Post by: Cormacaroni on November 30, 2007, 08:07:23 PM
I think what it comes down to is this. Japan is small. Wii sales numbers are HUGE. Wii cannot sustain those numbers in a small place like Japan since the Wii is old hardware that never breaks down.

I am not surprised people who own a Wii did not buy another, while people continue to buy a console that has sold poorly for a while now.

uh, like the situation with the DS or the PS2?

(ok ok, many families own multiple DSes but only one Wii. but Japan's population is 120 million dude...Wii is far from saturating it. A better approach would have been "no games that even casuals want...until WiiFit")
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of Nov.
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 30, 2007, 08:14:51 PM
DS and PS2 have games
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of Nov.
Post by: Cormacaroni on November 30, 2007, 08:24:27 PM
DS and PS2 have games

So we're in agreement: Wii doesn't lack potential customers, it lacks games. See my previous statement in parentheses.
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of N
Post by: drohne on November 30, 2007, 08:49:27 PM
DS has games

yeah: contra 4, contra, and super c

but i may have to change my tune on ds if bangaioh, dodgeball, and metal slug 7 turn out even fractionally as well as contra 4
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of N
Post by: bork on November 30, 2007, 10:37:22 PM
So what's the reason?  The new gimped-but-lower-priced 40gb model and Shin Sangoku Musou 5?
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of N
Post by: MCD on November 30, 2007, 10:45:54 PM
So what's the reason?  The new gimped-but-lower-priced 40gb model and Shin Sangoku Musou 5?

And Winning Eleven, maybe blu ray too, who knows.
Title: Re: Early reports state that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of Nov.
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 30, 2007, 11:07:23 PM
DS and PS2 have games

So we're in agreement: Wii doesn't lack potential customers, it lacks games. See my previous statement in parentheses.

Dont be so butthurt