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Media Create Sales: 02/16 - 02/22
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schuelma said:
Lack of announcements doesn't mean lack of software though. Big reveals are always possible (it's what GAF exists for, right? Always waiting for the next big reveal) and Sony are sure to have plenty to fill the schedule as the year goes on.
I don't think there's a good way to predict the way sales will continue this year without further information about software, but whatever happens none of the home consoles has shown anything close to good health yet in 2009.
Unless systems get up around 70k regularly, we're still far short of a healthy home market by previous standards aren't we? I'm sure that in the PS2 days 60k was the floor.. am I remembering wrong?
swerve said:
Well yeah I'm sure announcements and games are coming..but in contrast to the other systems, we have nothing of note for the HD systems even announced for 2009. It's March..those announcements better be coming soon, you know?
Rocksteady33
Junior Member
ayrkain said:
"Wait for Tekken."
Moor-Angol
Banned
neojubei said:
Gran Turismo 5 says hi
Paracelsus
Member
How long will it take before Japanese guys will hit the streets saying "fu** YOU and your home systems"? <_<
No real games that are making a sales impact (moving systems), Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit are the only really big things on the system and third parties have not released much of note. Animal Crossing sold well but did not do much to move new users to the Wii, Wii Music was not the smash hit they had hoped for in Japan
That is a direct contrast with the US where third parties have things like Guitar Hero, Shaun White Snowboarding, Call of Duty WaW and Nintendo games like Mario Kart and Wii Fit remain sold out with shipment not equaling demand
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Send Reggie to Japan. Wii need it.
schuelma said:
Well that is what the source article is linked to;
http://dubai.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/ghard/1236176688/
http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-288742.aspx
Archie said:
Basically, Monster Hunter G and Monster Hunter 3 should both have been finished and released 12 months earlier, and Nintendo should have released a Wii Pokemon MMORPG for the holidays.
General interest and gamer mindshare seemed to move very quickly from Wii to PSP with Monster Hunter, and nothing can stop the tide.
Il Comodino
sorry about his english
Jtyettis said:
WTF O__o
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Whoo damn things aren't looking good for consoles.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
No worries. I'm sure Madworld will save the Wii in Japan. ...Wait...
Scum said:
I think the biggest problem for the Wii is if they'll lose too much mindshare during this period and become forgotten by the consumers.
Basically be in the same boat as the other home consoles and do good during big releases while struggle every other week.
PSP is really the only time we've ever seen a console rebound in Japan. Usually when a console dies it stays dead. Even with the PSP though it wasn't truely dead. PSP have always had an uncanny ability to sell hardware even with no games at all. Heck even during its revival after the PSP 2000 it had months of nothing and still continued to pull in around 50K a week.
Paracelsus
Member
Sage00 said:
I guess late ports don't count, otherwise there's The Last Remnant. The question is -when-.
ccbfan said:
Yeah, I've been thinking for a while that the complete lack of news about internally developed titles is preventing Wii from getting a 'vibe' of activity and health about it.
NCL is clearly prepared for these figures - hence the 1 million unit downward revision in Japan for the year ending March 31st.
So either they have 'written off' this first quarter and are holding everything back to get the momentum flowing later in the year, or they simply don't have the software to prop it up anywhere near ready.
I wonder what their Nintendo Channel usage-stats information is telling them about the 7million Wii out there.
SolidSnakex
Member
Paracelsus said:
TLR's problem isn't so much that it'll be a late port, it's the the games quality is already known. Late ports can sell as GTA showed last gen, but they've got to be very high quality.