Media Create published up to date figures for hardware sales in Japan and the figures demonstrate a astounding success for the Nintendo Wii in Japan. Nintendo sold 1.041.975 Wii systems this year while Sony managed to sell 353.823 Playstation 3 gaming systems. Not to forget Microsoft with 79.013 in this year with their Xbox 360. It should be noted that Sony is loosing money with every system produced and sold while Nintendo gains money.
Many sites that report these numbers point out that the amount of sales in dollars comes close to each other but fail to mention that is is not enough to compare game system sales but also consequences for game and accessory sales. With almost 700000 more systems in Japan in this year Nintendo is going to sell more games, more gamepads and other accessories increasing the revenue in that field as well.
It is also an important sign to game creators that the Wii is selling well and that it is currently the gaming system that producers will most likely sell the most games for. At least in Japan. The situation is different in North America and Europe where Microsoft is leading the field with their Xbox 360 thanks to the one year head start.
Which gaming system will be the dominant system in this generation ? Or, will there be a dominant system at all ? What do you think ?
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“…It should be noted that Sony is loosing money with every system produced…”.
Actually Sony should be thankful that they’re not selling that much systems, else they would loose much more money ;-).
Seems like the Wii will be no1 in sales, even though I don’t believe it will dominate the way the PS2 did. Then again, i really don’t care which of the corporate behemoths gets richer.
Heh, moving to Japan in a few days…hopefully they aren’t sold out of Wii’s like here in the states..