According to Famitsu 67% of wii owners in japan don't use their wii

http://games.ign.com/articles/827/827313p1.html

It's not all good news for Nintendo, though. Hamamura noted that the Wii hasn't seen a second big hit at the level of Wii Sports, and cited figures that suggest 67% of Wii owners haven't used the system of late. However, he admitted that Wii Fit is drawing attention, and added that it's possible that more games make the platform switch akin to Monster Hunter 3.

http://games.ign.com/articles/827/827313p1.html

It's not all good news for Nintendo, though. Hamamura noted that the Wii hasn't seen a second big hit at the level of Wii Sports, and cited figures that suggest 67% of Wii owners haven't used the system of late. However, he admitted that Wii Fit is drawing attention, and added that it's possible that more games make the platform switch akin to Monster Hunter 3.

numba1234

They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.Erkidu

Why embarass the Wii?...everyone knows its a casuals console.

They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.Erkidu

I'll admit, right now there's not a lot to play on the Wii. Once you've finished Zelda and SPMand played through Wii Sports and WarioWare, you've just got to wait for the holiday season. Hopefully Nintendo will work on getting some better third-party support.

I think they're about to get very busy...

SMG and Wii Fit comes in 2008. Those games alone will get people to play with their Wii's again.

Not to mention the rest of the games coming out this year and next.

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.Art_424

Why embarass the Wii?...everyone knows its a casuals console.

They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.Erkidu

that is like someone screaming............ please kick me in my nuts, i want to be owned !

[QUOTE="Art_424"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.Erkidu

Why embarass the Wii?...everyone knows its a casuals console.

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.Art_424

Why embarass the Wii?...everyone knows its a casuals console.

More like it's to save the face of PS3 and 360. PS3 hasn't had too many big sellers either outside of Everybody's Golf and there was not enough data on the 360 since they couldn't find any in Japan.

Edit: And Nintendo does need to bring out more games though. They basically have to depend on themselves again this gen for their console and they'll need to carry it for a bit longer.

Also, Wii Fit will probably be the next big seller. That drops in early December just in time for the holidays. One more thing, I really wish we could see what data he has to support his argument.

Well crap software sales and low attach rates = Wii's collecting dust while people are playing real games on PS2 or DS or PSP or even 360 since Halo 3 is so huge over there now.V_Isle

:lol: nothing needs to be said lol.

anyways, yeah wii sports was really the only big hit the wii has had over there, with zelda, paper mario and dragon quest enjoying limited success. the wii has a HUGE next few months in japan though with mario in november, wii fit in december and smash bros in january. those 3 games are big blockbusters for the japanese market and should boost sales further.

[QUOTE="Art_424"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.Zhengi

Why embarass the Wii?...everyone knows its a casuals console.

More like it's to save the face of PS3 and 360. PS3 hasn't had too many big sellers either outside of Everybody Loves Golf and there was not enough data on the 360 since they couldn't find any in Japan.

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.molinex

that is like someone screaming............ please kick me in my nuts, i want to be owned !

[QUOTE="Zhengi"][QUOTE="Art_424"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.numba1234

Why embarass the Wii?...everyone knows its a casuals console.

More like it's to save the face of PS3 and 360. PS3 hasn't had too many big sellers either outside of Everybody Loves Golf and there was not enough data on the 360 since they couldn't find any in Japan.

:lol: You say that like 100,000 is a lot of games sold.

[QUOTE="Erkidu"][QUOTE="Art_424"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.numba1234

Why embarass the Wii?...everyone knows its a casuals console.

are you serious :? this is everybody's golf we're talking about! thats all its sold? i thought it came out in july didn't it?

if that number is correct then the ps3 is doing worse than i thought in japan (the other everybody's golf games passed 1 million, even 2 million easily in a short amount of time. 400k is pathetic for the franchise)

[QUOTE="numba1234"][QUOTE="Zhengi"][QUOTE="Art_424"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.Zhengi

Why embarass the Wii?...everyone knows its a casuals console.

More like it's to save the face of PS3 and 360. PS3 hasn't had too many big sellers either outside of Everybody Loves Golf and there was not enough data on the 360 since they couldn't find any in Japan.

:lol: You say that like 100,000 is a lot of games sold.

[QUOTE="molinex"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.Erkidu

that is like someone screaming............ please kick me in my nuts, i want to be owned !

and soon to come assassins creed and mass effect

BTW what are you playing right now ?

[QUOTE="Zhengi"][QUOTE="Art_424"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.numba1234

Why embarass the Wii?...everyone knows its a casuals console.

More like it's to save the face of PS3 and 360. PS3 hasn't had too many big sellers either outside of Everybody Loves Golf and there was not enough data on the 360 since they couldn't find any in Japan.

[QUOTE="Erkidu"][QUOTE="molinex"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.molinex

that is like someone screaming............ please kick me in my nuts, i want to be owned !

and soon to come assassins creed and mass effect

BTW what are you playing right now ?

Lol. But but the wii has carnival games, and brunswick pro bowling, and mlb power pros... oh wait, those are horrible...

[QUOTE="Zhengi"][QUOTE="numba1234"]

They had like 6 games I think sold 100,000. numba1234

:lol: You say that like 100,000 is a lot of games sold.

No, just no. Look at Erikdu's post and you'll see just how much better the Wii is doing if you think 100,000 is a lot :)

[QUOTE="Erkidu"][QUOTE="molinex"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.molinex

that is like someone screaming............ please kick me in my nuts, i want to be owned !

and soon to come assassins creed and mass effect

BTW what are you playing right now ?

[QUOTE="molinex"][QUOTE="Erkidu"][QUOTE="molinex"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.joeamis

that is like someone screaming............ please kick me in my nuts, i want to be owned !

and soon to come assassins creed and mass effect

BTW what are you playing right now ?

Lol. But but the wii has carnival games, and brunswick pro bowling, and mlb power pros... oh wait, those are horrible...

MLB Power Pros was solid AA at IGN, btw. The key to being a Wii owner is ignoring the crap. It comes with owning a console that is more successful initially than anything before it.

[QUOTE="Zhengi"][QUOTE="numba1234"][QUOTE="Zhengi"][QUOTE="Art_424"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.numba1234

Why embarass the Wii?...everyone knows its a casuals console.

More like it's to save the face of PS3 and 360. PS3 hasn't had too many big sellers either outside of Everybody Loves Golf and there was not enough data on the 360 since they couldn't find any in Japan.

:lol: You say that like 100,000 is a lot of games sold.

The remaining 33% userbase is still more than the entire PS3/360 userbase combined. darkmario123

:lol: he's actually right lol.

[QUOTE="molinex"][QUOTE="Erkidu"][QUOTE="molinex"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.joeamis

that is like someone screaming............ please kick me in my nuts, i want to be owned !

and soon to come assassins creed and mass effect

BTW what are you playing right now ?

Lol. But but the wii has carnival games, and brunswick pro bowling, and mlb power pros... oh wait, those are horrible...

You just messed up. MLB Power Pros is one of the best MLB sims out there.

I've said it since launch, the casuals won't keep playing games long after they first try out their wii's.Looks like Nintendo won't be dropping the price of the wii much or soon, because they're going to need to profit of the hardware for the long haul...joeamis

You're pretty clueless. Super Mario Galaxy will reduce 67% drastically, if it's even accurate. And once Mario Kart and SSBB hit the market, 2 games with high replayablity, that number will be lower than 40% for at least a year.

This is precisely what I've been saying is going to happen, roughly the same thing that the gamecube and the n64 did. Wii would sell like hotcakes, people will find out the hard way the game droughts that Nintendo is so famous for and then sales go flat. How can Nintendo expect to continue to outsell the x360 seeing that it's gamers are getting drowned in good games?mikemil828

[QUOTE="mikemil828"]This is precisely what I've been saying is going to happen, roughly the same thing that the gamecube and the n64 did. Wii would sell like hotcakes, people will find out the hard way the game droughts that Nintendo is so famous for and then sales go flat. How can Nintendo expect to continue to outsell the x360 seeing that it's gamers are getting drowned in good games?Chau_

They did initially, better than either the PS1 or the PS2 did over the same time frame, but eventually people realized the drought, and sales flattened. It's taking a bit longer for this to happen with the Wii due to favorable media coverage and it's neat gimmick.

the pure truth is revealed. 67% of Japanese are trendy!!! sheep with blinders.F1sTDaCuffS

Probably the same ratio as Americans, once they realize that their wii is a couple pound paperweight Nintendo shall return to third place.

[QUOTE="numba1234"]

http://games.ign.com/articles/827/827313p1.html

It's not all good news for Nintendo, though. Hamamura noted that the Wii hasn't seen a second big hit at the level of Wii Sports, and cited figures that suggest 67% of Wii owners haven't used the system of late. However, he admitted that Wii Fit is drawing attention, and added that it's possible that more games make the platform switch akin to Monster Hunter 3.

too_much_eslim

oh...I don't know.....maybe they are smart enough to learn from other peoples mistakes and not get a system that has a reputation of *still* being unreliable........wild guess......

[QUOTE="joeamis"][QUOTE="molinex"][QUOTE="Erkidu"][QUOTE="molinex"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.mdisen2

that is like someone screaming............ please kick me in my nuts, i want to be owned !

and soon to come assassins creed and mass effect

BTW what are you playing right now ?

Lol. But but the wii has carnival games, and brunswick pro bowling, and mlb power pros... oh wait, those are horrible...

You just messed up. MLB Power Pros is one of the best MLB sims out there.

I've said it since launch, the casuals won't keep playing games long after they first try out their wii's.Looks like Nintendo won't be dropping the price of the wii much or soon, because they're going to need to profit of the hardware for the long haul...joeamis

You're pretty clueless. Super Mario Galaxy will reduce 67% drastically, if it's even accurate. And once Mario Kart and SSBB hit the market, 2 games with high replayablity, that number will be lower than 40% for at least a year.

One of the best MLB sims out there haha, I included that game because it's the best recent wii game there is, but it clearly shows that the best recent wii game is dwarfed by whats currently available on 360. I'm clueless? No, you're the one who is completely clueless in thinking that Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart, and SSBB will get casual people to all buy those games and begin playing them when their idea of a game is wii sports and they haven't touched the wii since that game.

[QUOTE="Chau_"][QUOTE="mikemil828"]This is precisely what I've been saying is going to happen, roughly the same thing that the gamecube and the n64 did. Wii would sell like hotcakes, people will find out the hard way the game droughts that Nintendo is so famous for and then sales go flat. How can Nintendo expect to continue to outsell the x360 seeing that it's gamers are getting drowned in good games?mikemil828

They did initially, better than either the PS1 or the PS2 did over the same time frame, but eventually people realized the drought, and sales flattened. It's taking a bit longer for this to happen with the Wii due to favorable media coverage and it's neat gimmick.

The only difference is that the GC and N64 did not sell very well for 8 consecutive months after launch. And if you think those did poorly, where does that leave the PS3 and 360 which have sold way below what the GC sold in Japan?

[QUOTE="F1sTDaCuffS"]the pure truth is revealed. 67% of Japanese are trendy!!! sheep with blinders.mikemil828

Probably the same ratio as Americans, once they realize that their wii is a couple pound paperweight Nintendo shall return to third place.

lol, third place :lol: i think you're delusional, here have some apple juice to get all that crazy out of ya head.

[QUOTE="mdisen2"][QUOTE="joeamis"][QUOTE="molinex"][QUOTE="Erkidu"][QUOTE="molinex"]

[QUOTE="Erkidu"]They should do the same study with the PS3 and 360, to be fair.joeamis

that is like someone screaming............ please kick me in my nuts, i want to be owned !

and soon to come assassins creed and mass effect

BTW what are you playing right now ?

Lol. But but the wii has carnival games, and brunswick pro bowling, and mlb power pros... oh wait, those are horrible...

You just messed up. MLB Power Pros is one of the best MLB sims out there.

I've said it since launch, the casuals won't keep playing games long after they first try out their wii's.Looks like Nintendo won't be dropping the price of the wii much or soon, because they're going to need to profit of the hardware for the long haul...joeamis

You're pretty clueless. Super Mario Galaxy will reduce 67% drastically, if it's even accurate. And once Mario Kart and SSBB hit the market, 2 games with high replayablity, that number will be lower than 40% for at least a year.

One of the best MLB sims out there haha, I included that game because it's the best recent wii game there is, but it clearly shows that the best recent wii game is dwarfed by whats currently available on 360. I'm clueless? No, you're the one who is completely clueless in thinking that Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart, and SSBB will get casual people to all buy those games and begin playing them when their idea of a game is wii sports and they haven't touched the wii since that game.

I believe you said, and I quote "...and mlb power pros... oh wait, those are horrible". MLB Power Pros will probably be AA here. What does the PS3 or Xbox360 have? The Bigs? Arcade baseball? No thanks.

Anyway, let's look at the big games for the Wii right now. Legend of Zelda (little replayability), Super Paper Mario (same), Resident Evil 4 (port), Metroid Prime 3 (little replayability). The Wii has sold 12 million consoles on several games that you aren't really going to log a lot of hours on, that is why 67% (supposedly) aren't being played. Mario Kart and Super Smash Brothers both are extremely replayable, I logged about a hundred hours on Melee easy. Super Mario Galaxy will be a huge system seller, and WiiFit will sell a few consoles also. The Wii is set for 2008, and gives Nintendo plenty of time to work on Zelda Wii and whatever new franchises they'll suprise us with.