Wii starts to lose sales in Japan

[Rasande Bävern]

Nintendo have totaly dominated the Japanse consolesales since the release of Wii. According to the recently reports it seems like nintendo starts to losing their advantage.

The Wii-sales in august ended with 245.653 units while the PS3 sold 81.541 units.
That means that Wii only sales 3/1 with the PS3. In July this condition were 4/1 and the month before 6/1

The Gap between Wii and the PS3 has reduced clearely. If this trend will continue is an other question but according to the reports it seems like we will see a much bigger console war between Sony and Nintendo in Japan.

 

[Ryano]

...Source of these accusations?

 

[ben209]

As with any new console, there will be an initial 'must have' and then once this has past, sales always drop off. I feel that wii will continue to be a strong performer simply for the wiimotes and gameplay that this offers. Couple this with the proposed intorduction of a wii that can take dvds and more games becoming available and this will allow wiis to maintain a strong market presence for some time to come.

 

[hockeyhero]

Nintendo have totaly dominated the Japanse consolesales since the release of Wii. According to the recently reports it seems like nintendo starts to losing their advantage.

The Wii-sales in august ended with 245.653 units while the PS3 sold 81.541 units.
That means that Wii only sales 3/1 with the PS3. In July this condition were 4/1 and the month before 6/1

The Gap between Wii and the PS3 has reduced clearely. If this trend will continue is an other question but according to the reports it seems like we will see a much bigger console war between Sony and Nintendo in Japan.

i geuss wii had an off month or something.........4/1 is still pretty good

 

[Apakarta]

yeah pretty good but...when the big 4 realese wii will rock u

 

[Giga-Bowser]

have you got a source for this and that is still good, 4-1 for wii vs ps3 is good.

 

[wifey502]

could it be that everyone now has a wii???

 

[Rasande Bävern]

have you got a source for this and that is still good, 4-1 for wii vs ps3 is good.

3/1... yeah its still good but the difference is reducing, but it maybe is like hockeypro said , wii only had one bad month.

www.gamecore.se is the source , its a very reliable homeside (In Swedish thou)

 

[wayne-kerr]

This is a good source too http://www.the-magicbox.com/ Has both Usa & Jap game and console sales aswell as latest gaming news.

 

[Ryano]

Well now that you have a source I'll say this, its not that big of news. It was expected really.

 

[Becky]

There will always be highs and lows in the sales of any product. Time of year, title or hardware availability/release, promotions etc will have an impact. Attitudes and behaviour of target audience are important too, and we all know that the Wii appeals to a different type of gamer.

It's impossible to tell if this is the start of a permanent decline until we can see longer-term trends for at least a fiscal quarter, ideally more. Details of Christmas sales will probably be the most revealing statistics in the near future.

 

[kaitora]

There will always be highs and lows in the sales of any product. Time of year, title or hardware availability/release, promotions etc will have an impact. Attitudes and behaviour of target audience are important too, and we all know that the Wii appeals to a different type of gamer.

It's impossible to tell if this is the start of a permanent decline until we can see longer-term trends for at least a fiscal quarter, ideally more. Details of Christmas sales will probably be the most revealing statistics in the near future.

she has a good point... and also a lot of the major titles are coming out now... mario galaxy, mario kart, metroid and SSBB... so you may see a rise in sales soon

 

[Ryano]

There will always be highs and lows in the sales of any product. Time of year, title or hardware availability/release, promotions etc will have an impact. Attitudes and behaviour of target audience are important too, and we all know that the Wii appeals to a different type of gamer.

It's impossible to tell if this is the start of a permanent decline until we can see longer-term trends for at least a fiscal quarter, ideally more. Details of Christmas sales will probably be the most revealing statistics in the near future.

she has a good point... and also a lot of the major titles are coming out now... mario galaxy, mario kart, metroid and SSBB... so you may see a rise in sales soon

I think it'll especially be Mario Galaxy that'll get the big sales, don't really know why but it seems like the type of game that would appeal to the japanese audience.

 

[Kirby]

I'm ok with that, I already got my Wii

I think another reason why the sales have dropped is the fact that Everybody in Japan has the Wii already. It's quite a bit harder to pay for a PS3

 

[Rasande Bävern]

Japan has about 130 million inhabitants so i really doubt thats the reason