..right in the kisser.

The global count on the home page is rounded to the nearest 0.1m. Last week the X1 was at 4.9m (4,904,595). It added 60k this week, so the total becomes 4.96m(4,962,369). The home page rounds that to 5m. If it sells another 60k next weeks the total will become 5.02m, so the home page should stay at 5m.

You also have to remember that VGC adjust their numbers pretty frequently. The sales figures they provide are estimates, so when more reliable data (such as NPD) is released, they adjust their numbers with the new data in mind. Large adjustments like what happened to the PS3/360 are rare. Most of us agree the PS3/360 figures are still off though, so we may get another adjustment up or down for either at some point.

Those two factors can make the home page figures seem like they are going up too quickly, magically going down, or sometimes barley moving at all.

They are less popular but they still big

I will cut FF some slack since the PS3 version of FFXIII almost reached 2 million, but RE5 struggled to reach 1 million and MGS4 only did slightly below 900k! I guess time will tell if they will really give the PS4 a worthwhile boost in Japan..

There is no MGS over 1 millions sales in Japan,RE fall a lot but a game a litle less then one millions in Japan is still something big.

I may be wrong but I think the Wii is not manufactured anymore

O I get the math, I just don't get the logic in combining the Wii U and X1 sales when each console compete in their own right.

BTW there is a much more simple way to do the sums. Say if the PS4 had 42% market share and the following week it had more than 42% of the sales, its market share would go up. If it has less that 42% of the sales,  its market share would go down. So if the following week the PS4s market share went down to, let's say, 40%, it would have to have more than 40% of the sales for it to gain market share etc. So yes you make a good points but when you hold a lower percentages like 30% (Wii U) and 22% (X1) you only have to sell more than you current market share for it to go up. Which means that the PS4 could sell more than double of the X1 and the X1 could still gain market share.

PS4 is currently selling around 50% of the market according to VGC so its market will keep rising to around 50% unless sale percentages change.

Please keep the quote tree trimmed so we can have a healthy Cone...
About the grades analogy it is broken. If in my class I get a 10 and my two rivals have 6 and 5 they were better than me combined because the sum is 11? Domination doesn't mean more than 50% unless Both adversaries join forces. Because 50-25-25 marketshare will gave ps4 a lot of leverage for 3rd parties than a half install base console or a no 3rd party support console even if we lump them together to say it is 50-50. So this argument is silly in all levels that aren't just to downplay ps4.

Told you all that 60k wouldn't be the new Wii U baseline :P

Just saying, right now I'm playing Destiny BETA, Watch_Dogs (superior console version) on PS4. So it's time to stop the butthurt thing and accept the King...