Market Now: (BusinessWeek 2005, February 28)

Nintendo: Wii remote

(1) Wii Sports: Tennis, Golf, Baseball, Bowling and Boxing.

(3) Market share: (2007/2)

First six weeks of sales volume in Japan:

PS3: 310K, Xbox360: 110K, Wii: 1130K

(4) Supports: N64, Game Cube, Wi-Fi wireless network with browser, 512 M RAM, SD reader etc.

As a comparison to the prediction in 2005:

Market Now: (BusinessWeek 2005, February 28)

   Games: US24.5 billions revenue in 2004,

          larger than the movie box-office business

        Game software sales: 7.3 billion,

           (1) EA (Electronic Art): $3 billion, and top five

               game developers accounted for 56% of the revenue.

     Likely winners:  SONY, EA  (Consoles, games, movies, only Sony

                      has it all)

     At risk: Ninendo, Activision (second largest independent

     game developer), Walt Disney

    2004: game consoles: Sony (56.4%), Microsoft (24.9%), Nitendo(18.7%)

    39% of video gamers are women.