remember the day when the highest ranking went to ps3, well it may have cooled off, here arte the ranks updated, and i don't remember but i think that two weeka ago the wii in uk was at number 168, now it's # 1, do you think the emotion over ps3 has passed in the old continent, what do you think?

amazon.de                 wii  # 63                    ps3  # 26
amazon.fr                    wii   # 3                     ps3  # 21
amazon.uk                   wii    # 1                   ps3 # 14
amazon.com               wii     #7                    ps3 #15

I don't know how much credit Amazon's ranking really has...how does it work?

 I think its a compination of reviews and sales.

alright, i was just wondering, and i didn't care enough to google it.

That has no relation to consoles.

Those numbers are nice, but their just "sales" I doubt #1 is selling only 3,000 books/day in december.

Basically what they say is, if your book is the #1 in sales. it's #1. If it's #500... it's #500 in sales.

Since there is no number of units sold/day. There is no way to know how much better #1 is selling than #20. #20 could actually have 50 sales/day less, with 5000 sales/day.

Not saying that is the case for the consoles, but it's just sales rank. 

As a guess, you would probably see a similar difference between the daily rankings on amazon and the weekly/monthy rankings you see published ...

Looking at the month chart for North America we have:

EDIT: Took out chart because it broke the page 

And Weekly sales from Japan:

EDIT: Took out chart because it broke the page 

On Amazon (being that it has such a short sample period) I think it would be more important to have a decent ranking over a long time (say #10 or #20 for a full month) than a high ranking for a short period of time (#1 for a day) but we don't have any data to back it up

EDIT: ioi should put a scrolling div around people's posts if they break the width of the fixed with page ...