Ars Technica have the story that in a recent poll commissioned by Japanese entertainment magazine Famitsu, 88% of respondents think that the PlayStation 3 will be too expensive and 69% of people said that they were looking forward to the release of the Nintendo Wii.

So it seems, that in Japan at least, Nintendo are winning the next-generation console war, where both Sony and Nintendo have been battling for supremacy.

It’s interesting that in the Ars Technica story which shows the top ten waited-for games according to the survey, there is only one Xbox 360 title. It is, admittedly, Halo 3, but it is also at the bottom of the list. The original Xbox didn’t do too well in Japan either, with the domination of the PS2.