Wii Puts Japanese Television Under Pressure

Knuckles writes "The Times reports that Japanese consumers have been 'abandoning television' in order to play with Nintendo's Wii. Recent figures from Japan's audience-tracking firms show that 'last week was the first in nearly two decades where no single show on any commercial station attracted more than a 9 per cent audience share ... According to one senior executive of the country's largest commercial television channel, Fuji TV, families who used to tune in to its colourful diet of soap operas, panel games and comedy variety shows may, instead, be drifting away and choosing to spend the same, economically-critical golden hour time playing on their Wii.'"

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Maybe

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe because Japanese TV sucks. How many "Happy fun time super magic hour" shows can you make anyway. And the repressed homosexuality and pedophilic undertones in those shows, don't even get me started.

That's what she said

[wooden pickle]

And your mother is forgoing television as well, but to play on my Wii.