It seems like only yesterday that analysts and the opportunistic gaming blogs who regurgitate their incredibly inaccurate research notes were saying the Wii was “slipping” in Japan. It could only muster a 2:1 ratio over the closest competitor in the region, the PS3, after all, for the month of May and June. EPIC FAIL!
Let’s check the Enterbrain stats for the month of July, which ended yesterday. Hum dee hum… bwah? What’s this?!
Nintendo Co Ltd’s (7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research) Wii video game console outsold Sony Corp’s (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) PlayStation 3 by more than 3-to-1 in Japan in July, a game magazine publisher said. Nintendo, creator of Mario, Zelda and other iconic game characters, sold 171,851 units of the Wii in the four weeks ending July 27, compared with 54,823 units of the PS3, Enterbrain said on Friday.
Gee, thanks Reuters! So, in conclusion, the Wii saw its lead grow, and sales reach a new high, in the middle of the summer. I eagerly anticipate what the landscape looks like in December. It’s going to be a horrorshow. Wario? Animal Cross with voice chat? Retro original WiiWare titles from Capcom and possibly Konami now too? Alas, poor wallet, I knew thee well!
Oh snap! Wii does it again! I have lost total respect for analysts that negate the Wii. They continuously get proven wrong month after month.
i speculate that sale will decrease from this point forward and the wii will be an epic failure. research indicates that this will be the trend.
I think these guys are right on the money because we will all see the Wii for the fad it is when nintendo releases the next home console. So eventually the PS3 will have it’s year and they are serious about ten years if they want to have any thing to brag about. That’s a lot of FPS and sand box games. Man kinda makes me want to throw up.
It’s hard to advance forward when you leave every one else behind. Yes I’m talking to the HD guys that says nintendo set the industry back. When ever the cpu and GPU makers make HD tech at Wii prices then you can start complaining.
All I’m saying is, it’s getting to be too long of a wait for Animal Crossing on Wii!
I’m begining to feel like this cartoon:
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=269
YAWN, another typical and lame article.
Thank GOD the ” I TOLD you SO” fanboys around here have finished gloating after all this time. It was just gettin gpathetic…lol!
If I just wait a few more posts, I am SURE that some FanBOY will talk about the ” Bubble bursting” analogy and how the market is SOOOO wrong and Nintendo is SOOOO great.
Y A W N
Now respond fanBOYS… I command you!
pii pii shut up.
Considering most analysts are paid more than most of us, NO, I don’t think we should ever stop reminding them that they’re continually wrong. They use history when it doesn’t suit Nintendo, and then use ‘logic’ and their own warped intuition when it doesn’t suit Nintendo. Essentially, regardless of the reality, Analysts have been projecting downward turns for Nintendo without break since 1997.
@ Wii Wii. I propose this. The analysts are the real Fanboys. We the Nintendo loyal by and large conceded that Nintendo were looking down by 2003, two years into the last generation, and we are jubilant now that in 2008 Nintendo are still looking up two years into the current generation. The analysts of 2003 said Nintendo sales would be down, and the analysts of 2008 said sales would be down. WE are reactive to the situation and THEY are not. Who are more reasonable?
I remember when they predicted that Nintendo wouldn’t make another console, and the GameCube would be the last one. Thus, forcing them to be a 3rd party company and making games for microsoft. I wish I could find that article and see if they still have a job today.
The fanboys — sorry — Analysts, are always wrong. That’s why they are never mentioned in a credible source.
I’ll admit I’m not nintendo loyalist. Just stating what I see and have seen. If you see me as one then you need to take the fanboy radar down a little. We are all tired of fanboys but we are posting here as gamers mostly. True fanboys don’t exist every one knows it simply because big corporation don’t listen to them they only seem to.
Wii Wii just take a look at the PC’ past and wonder why it never conquered console gaming. It never embraced arcade like games even though it was easy to get neo geo type graphics on it. It kept going up in price every year. It was for the tech savy. It was simply too elite. Now that’s great for bragging rights but there is not much of a future in it when people are not growing out of certain games like a GTA and FPS. I don’t have a problem with SONY and MS but if they are doing bad then I do because that means it could potential be a problem for the industry.
Why I don’t get mad at nintendo now because they made their way work. As long as some one keeps gaming going on the console side I’m still happy. As history has shown gaming doesn’t even have to exist you know.
These analysts obviously enjoy setting themselves up for being wrong.
Why is it that out of all posts, WiiWii’s is the one that sounds the most bitter? All our fanboyish gloating, as he calls it, doesn’t make this article any less true.
The playstation 3 is the true next generation console and has tons of more potential than wii. Nintendo should have at least tried to make a more powerful console.
People are buying wiis just to own one, they don’t get it for the games.
@ Player-Charlie
You could try being less obvious next time.