Nintendo did well to launch Wii early in the holiday season. Media outlets have loved the console. Wii pre-order campaigns have been a big hit. Despite so-so FPS controls, many media publications including CNN have marked up Wii as a hot buy in this season’s buy list.
However, Nintendo must not rest. Going by the reports, PS3 will have superior technical features and it will lead the global market eventually.
Enterbrain, the Japanese publisher of Famitsu magazine has analysed the chances of the three console makers and forecasts that by 2009, Sony will lead the market with 34 million PlayStation 3s, followed by Microsoft with 28 million Xbox 360s. Nintendo will have to make do with the third position with 25 million Wii consoles in the market.
