Wii outsells PS3 6:1 in Japan
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 8:13am by Jack
The mountain of Nintendo grows ever higher this morning as Reuters (via CNET, via Enterbrain) reports that the plucky little Wii has bested the obsidian monolith PS3 by a ratio of 6:1.And the best part? Wii’s momentum is going UP month over month.
Nintendo sold 270,974 units of the Wii in the four weeks ended June 24, compared with 41,628 units for the PS3 and 17,616 units for Microsoft’s Xbox 360, according to data from Enterbrain.
The Wii’s lead against the PS3 was 4 to 1 in April and 5 to 1 in May.
Hey, at least Sony still has Australia, right?
[Image courtesy of Aeropause]
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:11 am
Hey, Sony STILL has the PS2, don’t forget about that!
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:26 am
Sales of all the systems have somewhat stabalised now. Each week:
DS sells 110-120K
Wii sells 60-80K
PSP sells 25-35K
PS2 sells 11-13K
PS3 sells 9-11K
Xbox360 sells 2-4K
The rest are negligible.
The ratio might might might hit 7, but won’t exceed it in the very near future.
PS2 is finally dropping off. Their best hope is currently PSP.
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:14 pm
i doubt theyre picking up speed. they’re simply managing to fill demand.
you know, now that they aren’t intentionally withholding systems to redistribute revenue into the correct earnings periods or whatnot.
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:13 pm
“Their best hope is currently PSP”
yeah, and yesterday Dark Alex announces he’s leaving the PSP scene fearing for his safety since Sony might get to him, So I guess without the PSP prophet, the PSP will finally retire into the darkness, since his work was the reason Sony sold about 4,000,000 PSPs. They do make great tvs, very expensive but nice anyways….
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I DO wonder what Microsoft thinks about this… how are they planning to keep up the fight after Halo 3 and GTA?
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:57 pm
The interesting thing is that Nintendo’s maintaining this incredible pace without actually having decent software beyond Wii Sports. When there’s something else worth the Japanese peoples times (perhaps some kind of interactive aquarium, I don’t know) sales will only go up. As for PS3, we saw the highest profile releases they’re going to see for a while last week and the hardware sales barely managed 12,000. The more depressing thing is that until Ninja Gaiden, PS3 software sales were about half of the weekly hardware sales. People were buying the unit as a Blu-ray player as much as a games console.
July 3rd, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Every now and then, my former FAN BOY self comes back.
This is one of those times.
so, without any FURTHER adoo…..
LOL@ SONY !!!!!!!
Now, back to my sane, gamer, self.
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
I think Sony would be just as happy if they sold a hundred million Beta-ray players as they would if they sold a hundred million game consoles, to tell you the truth. They make licensing money off of BR movies just as they do off of PS3 games.
The question, then, assuming the PS3 continues its market share death spiral, is whether BR can maintain its lead over HD-DVD after the PS3 tanks and HD-DVD players are still more numerous and way cheaper than BR players. (You don’t think Sony’s going to let Chinese manufacturers stamp out $99 BR players after what happened to the 360’s HD-DVD drive, do you?) The Gamecube started getting pulled out of stores and Nintendo had to do something fast in order to avoid dire straits. The PS3 being pulled out of stores might not matter if this whole charade was to put Sony in charge of the DVD replacement market.
And then, of course, there’s the pr0n part of the equation that decided the Beta vs. VHS thing decades ago. Do few enough people care about hi-def pr0n (or pr0n delivered through something other than the web) that it’ll even matter this time? By the time HD becomes mass-market, will people just be downloading HD movies (legal or otherwise) so that disc players are irrelevant anyway?
Those, to me, are way more interesting questions than the usual “Will the PS3 come back when Final Fantasy arrives?” (Though it is interesting that 3 or 4 months ago, the question was still, “Will the Wii survive once Final Fantasy arrives?”)
July 5th, 2007 at 3:40 am
porn helped DVDs but Hd porn seems to translate to 640×480 wmv files. Bluray or HDdvd porn seems like a no-go for at least a couple years. Ipod porn and PSP porn seems more likely to takeover.
July 5th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
There have been a few Blu-ray pr0n releases, and many more HD-DVD pr0n releases. HD camcorders are already within pr0n-video budgets, so the only questions are (1) do consumers care about having the physical disc anymore, (2) if so, which format, and maybe most importantly, (3) do we REALLY want the extra close-up clarity we’ll get with HD pr0n?
I would bet the added detail, in the hands of filmmakers used to the rough spots being concealed by the poor quality of SDTV, makes the first wave of HD pr0n is about as sexy as watching farm animals go at it. But I haven’t looked at it and don’t really plan to.
July 5th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
100 million Blu-ray players is all well and good for Sony. That’s money made on machines, and some money coming back to them on discs through Columbia.
100 million PS3’s as Blu-ray players is a disaster. That’s a sizable loss for every system (in japan around $300 a unit), some money coming back from movies, and negligible coming back from games.