Wii Outselling PS3 in Japan 385
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saintory writes "Apparently the Japanese console consumers are sinking their teeth into the modest Wii and are not as interested in the power-packed PS3. In fact, the Wii is outselling Sony's new console by a factor of almost 2:1. The number of PS3s sold into the Japanese market (466,716) falls well short of the million Sony had planned for the end of 2006. 989,118 Wii consoles have been sold in Japan in the same time span. From the article: 'Both Sony and Nintendo are projecting selling 6 million consoles by the end of March. Sony expects to start shipping the PS3 to Europe sometime that month as well. Straggling far behind Sony and Nintendo in the Enterbrain survey was Microsoft's Xbox 360, which had sold 290,467 since its Japan debut in December 2005. Selling machines in large numbers is crucial in the gaming business because it encourages software companies to make more games to play on the machines, which in turn boosts console sales.'"
PS3 in Europe (Score:4, Funny)
From the Sony PR Department: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:From the Sony PR Department: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In Other News... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:From the Sony PR Department: (Score:5, Funny)
Feature list for immature almost-tri-genarians (Score:5, Funny)
- SIXAXIS controller, which if pronounced sloppily can sound like "sex-asses".
- Motion sensing adds some potential.
Sex joke quotient: 50.
Wii:
- Name is inherently a phallus joke.
- Controller is phallic object, and referred to as "Wii-mote".
- Phallic object is "motion sensitive"
- Phallic object vibrates.
Sex joke quotient: 1 billion.
Winner: Wii. Wii always wins.
Re:PS3 in Europe (Score:5, Funny)
Plus the simple European folk tend to use turnips as their currency, and I think the yen-turnip exchange rate is particularly unfavorable this year.
Re:Developers follow the user base... creates spir (Score:3, Funny)
PS3 can run GNU/Linux and all the Free games developed for GNU/Linux by devoted amateurs. Wii requires each developer to be a company with office space detached from the home.
Re:Doesn't that make Nintendo evil? (Score:2, Funny)
Nintendo is off the hook because they created an entirely different [xkcd.net] environment.
Re:PS3 in Europe (Score:5, Funny)
Re:are we surprised? (Score:5, Funny)
One Wii, many Wii. A group of Wii is a club.
One XBox, many XBoxen. A group of XBoxen is a pack.
One PS3, many PS3s. A group of PS3s is a rarity.
*rimshot*
Re:PS3 in Europe (Score:5, Funny)
Actually the exchange rate should favour sales to the turnip union. In principle a US$900 console should only cost 695 Turnips currently.
Re:From the Sony PR Department: (Score:3, Funny)
The rep then dropped his pants and displayed his wii-mote.
Breakout (Score:3, Funny)
I thought capitalizing on Breakout [wikipedia.org] games was Atari's job.
Game Fanboy Logic (Score:4, Funny)
Re:From the Sony PR Department: (Score:1, Funny)
Particle Man (Score:4, Funny)
Particle Man, Particle Man,
Bought his Wii from a guy named Stan,
He plays a game, Particle wins,
Particle Man.
Triangle Man, Triangle Man,
Kicks Particle's ass playing Bomberman Land,
Same result while beta-testing Th3 Plan,
Triangle Man.
Note - Triangle Man always wins.
Man, I picked the wrong week to stop drinking
Re:This is news because... (Score:2, Funny)
"If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit!"
When you said "was actually", was that a little sob? Are you crying?
Re:In Other News... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:are we surprised? (Score:5, Funny)
You obviously haven't been to an electronics retailer lately. You'll see lots of PS3s sitting there. You can spot the PS3 section by the tumbleweed blowing through.
Re:From the Sony PR Department: (Score:2, Funny)
Hey, Slashdot called, they want their discussion back. [slashdot.org]
Re:In Other News... (Score:5, Funny)
It moves from east to west because of solar wind.
Christ man, didn't they teach you anything in school?
Re:This is news because... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Another number I would like to see.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In Other News... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:are we surprised? (Score:3, Funny)
That's actually the first thing I said after I bought my 50" HDTV and popped in a DVD.