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2007.07.19

Enterbrain: Nintendo's Wii clobbering PS3 and Xbox in Japan

Nintendo’s Wii sales in Japan appear to be pulling further ahead of Sony’s (SNE) PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s (MSFT) Xbox 360, game marketing outfit Enterbrain reports, with the Wii chalking up sales of more than 3 million units since it hit store shelves there December 2.

By comparison, the PS3 went on sale November 11, and Sony has moved just over 1 million boxes in Japan. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gets no love in Japan; Enterbrain says it has yet to find a half million buyers. The numbers are as of July.Enterbrain says its numbers on the Japanese gaming market come from a network of 3,200 retail stores and 31,000 other franchise and convenience stores.

The numbers are yet another feather in Nintendo’s cap, and more evidence of a sea change in the gaming business. Many had counted Nintendo out of the console wars, deriding the game maker’s consoles for graphics that are less impressive than what Sony and Microsoft deliver. But in the past year, Nintendo delivered a simple, stripped down and affordable console with an easy-to-use motion-sensitive controller. Casual gamers, apparently sick of consoles that are as expensive as a jet fighter and nearly as complicated to operate, flocked to Nintendo’s Wii.

Both Sony and Microsoft’s gaming units have suffered setbacks of late. Sony announced a $100 price cut on the PS3 earlier this month, only to admit a bit later that the cut applies only to a version of the console that it has stopped manufacturing. And this week Microsoft lost popular games chief Peter Moore to Electronic Arts (ERTS), just days after admitting that design problems with the Xbox 360 could cost Microsoft up to $1 billion.

[inertia3112]

the ps3 has been getting outsold by the gba in the us ever since just after launch!

[Beneddie1112]

Pretty sure that isn't true unless it was meant in a joking manner. Willing to cite your sources?

[inertia3112]

Originally Posted by Beneddie1112

Pretty sure that isn't true unless it was meant in a joking manner. Willing to cite your sources?

cheeky monkey!!

like ive got nothing better to do than make things up!


http://www.totalgamerzone.com/story-551.html

[PT]

Its not surprised really. Typically, gamers in Japan are more interested in 'fun' games which the Wii does deliver. Hence the great success of the NDS in Japan compared to the PSP.

Since the price drop in the USA the PS3 has been outselling the Xbox 360 by a considerable amount.

[Beneddie1112]

I find that verysurprising since that console has been around for about 7-8 years at least!

[inertia3112]

It puts the 'solid but unspectacular' launch of the ps3 into perspective though!
I think its been around about 5 years, and there are many versions, of the gba, ie. sp/micro.
But yes it is arelatively old console, but then the ps2 is equally as old, and look at the figures for that also.
I think there is now a divide in console hardware, where children and young teens are getting ps2/gba's, and older teens/adults moving onto ps3/xbox360 's.

But the wii/ds is spread throughout the whole cross-section of video game fans.

[1Naushaad]

Wii does better cause parents are being sold on the fact that you dont just sit and play games but get up and move around. PS3 over priced 4 sure

[greedyboy]

But..... there are more PS2's in the world than any other console.

Hence my very good friend has just launched a wireless controller (like the wii) bundled with a game for the PS2 for £29.99.

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Originally Posted by greedyboy

But..... there are more PS2's in the world than any other console.

Hence my very good friend has just launched a wireless controller (like the wii) bundled with a game for the PS2 for £29.99.

Is that the one that was featured on something for the weekend on bbc2 last sunday morning looks like a ball.The game they showed looked quite hard to do