While the IGN editors were running about the Tokyo Game Show show floor taking videos of and sampling the hottest upcoming Japanese games, the folks at Weekly Famitsu were conducting a survey of show attendees on all areas of next generation gaming. The magazine's survey managed to reach over 4,000 attendees, although most questions were answered by between 2,500 and 3,000 people.
The PS3 came out on top in the vote for which next generation system players are most looking forward to. 58.3% selected the PS3 as the next generation system they most want, compared to the Wii's 33.8% and the Xbox 360's 7.9%. It's worth noting that the Wii didn't have an official presence at the show, which is not attended by Nintendo, and was only shown being played by company reps (often scantily clad company reps) in the various 3rd party booths.
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Wii will win in Japan!
Seeing that sony was pretty much the only one showing stuff at TGS naturally everyones going to be saying they liked ps3 after the event cuz that's all they got to see
This is great news cos before it was the Wii that gracefully beat the PS3 in popularity in Japan. Now the Japanese want the PS3 more.
But it goes to show though that the high price of the PS3 is becoming less of an issue as the launch comes closer, and price is obviously less of an issue if the japanese (who really love nintendo) have picked the expensive PS3 above the cheap Wii
Perhaps with the increased publicity of the PS3 and as more things are being shown for it, people are starting to realise, "Hmm, that is actually really good. Perhaps it is worth the money"
Too bad people in the U.S. are not as bias as they are. But you know If I was from Japan I would favor PS3 too. To bad I'm from the U.S. and proud of my culture here and even more proud that MS has developed a console that has PS fan boys awake at night.
I can bet anything Japanese will win in Japan. It doesn't take a survey or an analyst to predict that. People just keep pointing towards the obvious!