Wii Steals TV Time
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
The Times Online reports that the Nintendo Wii is being blamed for a decline in primetime viewing figures:
The Nintendo Wii – the games console that is outselling Sony’s Play-Station 3 by three to one – has begun to “steal” prime-time television audiences in Japan.
The Nintendo machine, which was specifically designed to repackage video gaming as a family-oriented affair, is believed by media insiders to be responsible for an unprecedented decline in early-evening viewing figures for Japan’s top-rated shows.
via Wonderland:
I’m sure this will be a temporary big-dip, and Japanese TV will recover; but there’s always the risk that it won’t recover to its previous levels, as is the case of terrestrial Brit TV since the invasion of satellite …
