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Wii Outselling PS3 in Japan

Posted by Zonk on from the white-plastic-over-black-plastic dept.

saintory writes "Apparently the Japanese console consumers are sinking their teeth into the modest Wii and are not as interested in the power-packed PS3. In fact, the Wii is outselling Sony's new console by a factor of almost 2:1. The number of PS3s sold into the Japanese market (466,716) falls well short of the million Sony had planned for the end of 2006. 989,118 Wii consoles have been sold in Japan in the same time span. From the article: 'Both Sony and Nintendo are projecting selling 6 million consoles by the end of March. Sony expects to start shipping the PS3 to Europe sometime that month as well. Straggling far behind Sony and Nintendo in the Enterbrain survey was Microsoft's Xbox 360, which had sold 290,467 since its Japan debut in December 2005. Selling machines in large numbers is crucial in the gaming business because it encourages software companies to make more games to play on the machines, which in turn boosts console sales.'"

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  1. From the Sony PR Department: by Zeek40 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Wii is only outselling the PS3 in Japan because the small stature of the average Japanese gamer makes it extremely dangerous for them to attempt to wield the phenomenal gaming power contained within the PS3.

    1. Re:From the Sony PR Department: by Zeek40 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey, the 80's called, they want their "Hey, the called" jokes back. ;)

  2. Feature list for immature almost-tri-genarians by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny

    PS3:
    - SIXAXIS controller, which if pronounced sloppily can sound like "sex-asses".
    - Motion sensing adds some potential.
    Sex joke quotient: 50.

    Wii:
    - Name is inherently a phallus joke.
    - Controller is phallic object, and referred to as "Wii-mote".
    - Phallic object is "motion sensitive"
    - Phallic object vibrates.
    Sex joke quotient: 1 billion.

    Winner: Wii. Wii always wins.

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  3. Re:PS3 in Europe by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

    This wont help either, the average european household has way less money to spend than the average US one.

    Plus the simple European folk tend to use turnips as their currency, and I think the yen-turnip exchange rate is particularly unfavorable this year.

  4. Re:PS3 in Europe by maglor_83 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Plus the simple European folk tend to use turnips as their currency
    Oh come on. We all know only the Swedes do that.
  5. Re:are we surprised? by AeroIllini · · Score: 5, Funny
    Anecdotally, I was at Best Buy yesterday and they were still out of Wii (got a shipment that day but sold out very quickly) but had 12 PS3.
    Proper plurals:

    One Wii, many Wii. A group of Wii is a club.
    One XBox, many XBoxen. A group of XBoxen is a pack.
    One PS3, many PS3s. A group of PS3s is a rarity.

    *rimshot*
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  6. Re:PS3 in Europe by Asic+Eng · · Score: 5, Funny
    yen-turnip exchange rate is particularly unfavorable this year.


    Actually the exchange rate should favour sales to the turnip union. In principle a US$900 console should only cost 695 Turnips currently.