Oh, my god, I broke the thread again! And in the same thread as before - worldwide up!
How?? I was so ashamed the first time, now I'm REALLY embarrassed!

Sorry, and please Mods, fix it quickly!

The only thing for this one to work is:

360 doesn't get price cut.
There's no 360 slim.
Natal doesn't do anything.
Reach doesn't do anything.
There's no any other big thing happening in E3 for MS.

GT5 is a huge hit.
Move is a big hit/Sony has some other very big games.

GT5 is coming, it's the biggest system seller in gaming.

Then there's the PS Move and tons of E3 surprises, plus The Last Guardian.

Plus, last christmas, PS3 crushed 360, so there's no reason to think it will be different this time with all the good things coming to PS3.

this is like summer drought 360 near 100k and ps3 less than 140k i wonder how it will be in the summer-season (80k,50k)

I agree that GT5 is a big system seller, but not the biggest and differently not for this Gen.Maybe not even this year.

Well the 360 PS3 worldwide gap has got back to 30k.

Meaning once again Japan is the difference.

Now on the contrary to what some have said above in terms of releases for the PS3 they are no-longer system sellers. Most are sequels to games already out this gen or games that have no info about them at all. For example people claiming Last Guardian will be huge because it was made by the people who brought us Shadow of the Colossus. There is a problem with that theory. Shadow of the Colossus didn't even sell 1m copies with over 120m consoles to sell to. What is even worse is that it only sold 200k in Japan....That game will not drive sales.
The only games that drives sales are massive franchise titles. The only true one left for PS3 is Gran Turismo 5. That is the monster game.

Question is what makes you think it will be out this year? It has seen delay after delay. Remember the Japanese release date was moved from the start of this year to may. Well May is tomorrow, no release date. The game is done when it is done, a policy i agree with. I would bet anything you will see GT5 released in the last quarter of this year, around 6 months away.

In that 6 months what else will PS3 have to stimulate sales? Move? Those polls shown on here suggested that only 15% of people asked were interested in it.

I expect the PS3 numbers to fall to around 20k next week and then after that start to drop into the 10k mark by this time next month. Because that is exactly what happened last year and the same trend is happening again. With fewer titles now to release until the holidays you have to expect the numbers to start dropping.

Which makes the worldwide gap become less and less.

At this rate by june 1st 2010 the worldwide gap between PS3 and 360 will be neck and neck. We will then have a battle at E3 to determine who will sell more beyond that point. With MS having an obvious price cut coming because of the healthy profits they are making on the 360 plus Natal and maybe a new model you have to argue that Sony will have to match it. The only way they can do that is a further price cut. With them losing money on each PS3 that is unlikely to happen.

So on contrary to the people above, the PS3's numbers are the ones on the decline and now once again is relying on Japan to keep the worldwide gap above 360. And the numbers in Japan will tumble rapidly, such is how it has been there over the last few years.

Charts looking alright - obviously April/May time is slow for HW sales.

I'm happy for MH3 :)

Shame on you, Threadbreaker!

LOL I like how ps3 is the one getting all the "thats bad see its only 30k gap" while a certain person ignors his precious console is about to fall from 100k weekly sales.....haha clearly shows which is really doing worst out of all 3.