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Wii Outselling PlayStation 3 in Japan

Post by trog @ 05:12pm 11/01/07 | 55 Comments

Yoinked from Slashdot is this article from a Japanese site looking at how the PlayStation 3 is faring in Nippon:

Eating into Sony's sales at home was the unexpected success of Nintendo's Wii gaming system, according to Enterbrain. Nintendo sold 989,118 Wiis domestically from its Dec. 2 launch date to month's end, nearly double Sony's total.

With the Australian release still months away, I'm curious as to how many people are still even looking at the PlayStation 3 given the success of the Wii and Xbox 360 here - how many people out there are thinking about it?

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Bahamut
Posted 08:59pm 11/1/07

natslovR are you seriously saying that you'd buy a console for 999 dollars simply to use it as a media centre? That seems moderately ridiculous to me; why not stick with your X-Box 360 and a HD-DVD drive since you already have the 360.

The mere idea of buying a PS3 just to watch media is mind boggling o.O

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Bahamut
Posted 09:04pm 11/1/07

Arr Predator (my sarcasm detector is disabled) did you mean http://origin.arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.media/sonyemmywrong.JPG at all? Because you might want to read some more:
http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/sony-whoops-dualshock-not-sixaxis-won-emmy-227799.php
On that note, Nintendo won an Emmy also, for the d-pad. I'm beginning to think this Emmy thing is a load of crap, they're giving out awards for technology developed over ten years ago. I mean come on, at least award the damn things to something created recently!

Silly awards nubs =(

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fraxyl
Posted 11:30pm 11/1/07

DVD quality may be crap compared to HD content, but it's not a quality that's so poor you can't watch it at all. And unless you actually own an HDTV... ey fuhgeddaboudit.

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mambodog-RisingConflicts
Posted 04:19am 12/1/07

$2500?! what the fuck are you people thinking? you could build an awesome htpc for that much... and still have money left over for a wii

on the subject of wii games, elebits and excite truck are coming out pretty soon, so i know they'll be keeping me busy

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skythra
Posted 02:27am 13/1/07

ill buy it how i bought my ps2, ill wait till there is a big bundle of games two controllers and a sudden price drop. im not paying for the new integration of bluray... only paying for the rewards of it :)

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Haklin
Posted 11:14pm 15/1/07

i just upgraded my 7 year old comp....consoles can kiss my sweet core2duo asss

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weedy
Posted 04:02pm 16/1/07

8800GTX SLi and DX10 sorry PS3/xbox360/wii but your a tad late :)

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Tepid
Posted 08:37pm 16/1/07

yeah totally awesome... with that setup you can now play WoW at 200000x130000 resolution with 300 frames per second.

too bad it still looks like SHIT and you are still a LOSER!

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Nathan
Posted 01:17pm 21/1/07

but holy shit monkey ball or whatever the fuck it was sucked some serious anus and was so unresponsive and shit.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your comment, but I think its pretty well accepted that the monkey ball game was rushed for launch and ultimately half-baked.

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