OK, so wtf is the "Japanese" Wii? How is it different from the USA version? I live in NYC now, and the game store I patronize down the street (we actually have non-chain video game stores here), called Video Games New York is advertising "Japanese" Wiis for $430. Also advertising pink-colored Wiis. Okay.
Question: Will this memory card work in the Wii. You can get it for $17.99 after instant and mail in rebates. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6730264&st=san+disk&type=product&id=1083716072950
Yes. I'd go out on a limb and say it's the same memory card as the official Wii 1 gig memory card that sells for $39.99. Their both from Sandisk, I don't see any difference.
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Some Wii sales figures (by Media Create) from Japan for the first 2 days: Kind of sad to see Zelda being outsold by Wii Sports and Wii play. No offense to those games...but come on...we're talking about Zelda here. Guess that's just where the interest is going in Japan.
How much did the Wii sell for in Japan and why didn't they include wii sports? I was suprised by the low sales of Zelda too. If you take away wii sports/play they have a pretty bad hardware to software tie in ratio like the ps3.
Oh, come on. We're talking about TWO DAYS worth of sales figures here. That's hardly enough data to generate any reliable statistical trend. I mean, at that pace, Zelda will have sold over 2 million copies in 1 month. That's just not going to happen. Perhaps we can look at the data this way: Roughly 50% of all Wii owners in Japan are buying Zelda. Sure, that's lower than the U.S. ratio, but still, that's pretty damn good considering the U.S. version of the Wii comes with Wii Sports, and the Japanese Wii does not. (Plus, Wii Sports costs less than Zelda does in Japan.)
25,000 yen, or about $215. I don't know why they didn't bundle in Wii Sports over there. I wasn't sad with the Zelda sales numbers by themselves. I was sad that Wii Sports and Wii Play outsold Zelda. I would have had the same reaction if Zelda sold 340K. It is just that there has been this trend in Japan recently where "non-games" or "mini-games" have been selling like crazy (Nintendogs, Brain Training, English Training, etc.), even selling better than some great games like Mario, Final Fantasy, Okami, KH, etc. Again, nothing against those games, but I find that a little disappointing. The fact that both Brain Training and Brain Training 2 outsold a game like FFXII by more than a million copies (IIRC) is just disappointing IMO...especially when FFXII is (or will be) the best-selling FF game on the PS2 in Japan.
I think piracy has alot to do with the weak sales. Alot of people have modded xbox/360's/ps2's etc.....
Sales aren't really that weak (FFXII sold pretty well). Even if it was piracy, that still wouldn't explain the sales since they occur on the same platform. I think more than half of the top 10 selling games on the DS in Japan are games that I mentioned (mixed in with Mario Kart, NSMB, Pokemon). I think Sega made a cheap knock-off of the Brain Training games on the PSP (which obviously didn't have the same features that make DS Brain Training fun), and it actually sold pretty well too (top 5 seller IIRC...not saying much, but still).
I don't know...that's sales in two days. That's still really, really good for Zelda. And a pretty good tie ratio to the system (as VS pointed out). It's not so much Zelda did bad as Sports and Play did really well. And, let's face it, those two collections do a very good job of introducing the system to folks. I find the whole 'OH NO NONGAMES' fear to be pretty silly. I think even the word 'nongames' is utterly stupid. (Not directed at you RC, I'm just talking in general)
I've seen a lot of people on the IGN boards asking how to play videos on the Wii, so I went ahead and made this video. Figured some people here might find it useful as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I045D6IoEgc
I find that exciting, not disappointing. For the same reason I'm excited about the Wii. Those games are trying to pull in people who aren't traditionally gamers. That's why it's selling so well. Plus the price is right. Games like Tetris are going to be one of the top selling games all time for a reason. I just think that's Nintendo executing exactly as they had planned and that excites me.
Yeah, it's indication that the PS3 will do very good in Japan. It's either bad or neutral depending on how you look at it. Nintendo intends to attract everyone to a cheaper Wii.
