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.'"

Comments

TV is going the way of the Dinosaurs?

[Zekasu]

It's funny to think that television is finally being replaced (or at the very least, threatened) by a medium that actually supports the end of the couch potato. Irony? Just a bit.

So?

[Spy der Mann]

I left TV for videogames, the web, chat, forums, downloadable music and anime episodes long time ago.

Re:Maybe

[Goaway]

You think Hard Gay is "repressed"?

Re:Not sure how to take this...

[meringuoid]

So you can have your Wii and new Anime, but it requires the anime fans support the studios.

* examines T-shirts, wallscrolls, DVD boxsets, figurines dotted around room *
* examines ridiculous amount of bandwidth being consumed by Azureus for Haruhi-related purposes *

... I probably come out around even.