Even Snake can't stop Wii in Japan

by Chris Greenhough { Jul 3rd 2008 at 1:15PM }

There was a momentary panic in the Wii Fanboy dungeon a few weeks ago, after news filtered through that PlayStation 3 sales had zipped past the Wii in Japan.

Was this it, we wondered, reading the figures over and over again to check that we weren't seeing things. Was this Sony finally rising to strike down the Nintendo hegemony in Japan? Well, no. Not at all, actually. Turns out some old dude had wandered on to Sony's console and sent PS3 sales spiralling. Things are now back to normal, and the data-gatherers at Enterbrain confirmed as much by revealing that the Wii outsold Sony's platform by almost 100,000 units during June -- 235,990 to 139,494 was the final score.

[Via Next-Gen]

Tags: business, japan, ps3, sales

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Peter Vazkey @ Jul 3rd 2008 1:50PM

Wii is going to be the best selling system of all time. Period.

Jimmijam @ Jul 3rd 2008 2:30PM

And to think that not too long ago, most of us were either a) skeptical about motion controlled gaming or b) appalled at the name...

Nintendo genius.

Peter Vazkey @ Jul 3rd 2008 2:43PM

True, you know when I first heard the name and everything else they wanted to do with it. I was the first person I knew that said "this is probably going to be one of Nintendo best systems ever". People thought after the Gamecube, Nintendo couldn't come back. HA!

note: Nintendo never lost money with the Gamecube. It always did well in there book as well as it did in my.

sn1per @ Jul 3rd 2008 3:43PM

^^As a matter of fact, Nintendo turned a profit on every console sold (just like they are with the Wii), and for a while were winning the war in terms of profit (Sony eventually came out on top, I think).

Microswirl (MKWii:1676- 4270-3674) @ Jul 3rd 2008 3:16PM

In all fairness to Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo is only winning by having an innovative controller; they're unfairly leveraging Mario and Zelda games to sabotage the PS3 and 360. If it weren't for such underhanded, crude tactics like superior build quality and a prohibitively low price point, they'd totally be losing big time right now. Buncha cheaters!