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Wii Continues to Outsell PS3 in Japan |
According to a Bloomberg report, sales of the Nintendo Wii Japan continue to dominate over its Playstation rival.
Back in January SlipperyBrick reported that Wii sales were already significantly ahead in Japan after its launch on December 2nd, even though the PS3 launched about 3 weeks earlier on November 11th.
As of March 25th, Nintendo has reportedly sold 1.95 million Wii game console units in Japan, which is more than twice as many compared to 812,000 PS3 consoles sold by Sony in Japan since each of their respective launch dates.
The PS3 is a little more pricey game console, however. Actually sales yen makes the difference not quite as great with the PS3 having 47.6 billion yen in sales versus Nintendo’s 48.7 billion yen during the same period.
[Image via BBC news]
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so… almost identical in money made then..
interesting.
Similar amounts of money even though the cost of the PS3 is more than double that of the Wii. Not very interesting considering that the calculation is pretty much the number of consoles sold times the amount per console.
yeah but sony is loosing money on every console made anyway so that 47.6 isn’t actual profit.
But the amount of money Sony spent in the production of the PS3 is astronomical compared to the production costs of the Nintendo Wii. Nintendo is already making an enormous profit while Sony has not sold nearly enough PS3’s to cover the production costs. Essentially Sony is losing billions while Nintendo is making billions. Sony was expecting to sell virtually all its consoles, which is necessary to get the profits they set out to achieve when they invested so much money into the PS3 project. Nobody mass-produces an expensive product unless they think they can sell nearly all of them. For example, suppose Nintendo makes a $100 (USD) profit for every Wii sold, and Sony makes a $150 (USD) profit for every PS3 sold; what matters is what percentage of their product has been sold because while Wiis are being sold out, the majority of PS3s remain on store shelves which costs Sony a whopping $450 for EACH unsold PS3 (in this example).