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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 3570586" data-attributes="member: 2477">Thanks, haven't seen that comparison before. There are still other factor of course (price vs current consolves for example), but I imagine the main one is as much availability as anything.Right, but most of the stuff makes it seem like Wii's already outnumber 360's. In addition, the Wii is the delight of the press, and that amount of coverage/ free advertising is a huge boost.Lets be realistic, everyone knew that everyone would outsell the 360 in Japan, long before the systems were even finalized. Folks can say it is nationalist buying on Japan's part, or that Microsoft simply doesn't understand the market, but the idea that they would ever outsell in Japan was never even floated. Aside from that though, the Wii is a perfect fit for the Japanese market IMO, a more casual game system for a culture with a more ingrained casual game.The DS is a product improved Gameboy, which already owned that market. Sony had to fight into that market, like they did with PS1, and this time they lost. (I blame it on stupid advertising, a Sony Hallmark. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The DS is a well thought out little game system, certainly. I have one myself, and it's enjoyable when I can find a good game for it.That said, way too many of the DS games add the touch screen stuff as a gimick. A significant amount of Wii games look the same way. The system risks being marginalized with all the "party game" stuff, IMO.I think Sony might have blinked first and realized that maybe building the PS3 around BluRay might have been a bit bad. They've got investors and they can't make every decision to lose money. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think third party will be there, but I think it's a matter of them always making the same style games. It all depends on whether they can get some good games that break the mold and branch out the system.</blockquote>

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