these numbers will go down shortly its understandable tbh. i believe sony kept ps4 slim price the same as currently as theres now massive scope for price drops in future

But the PS4 Japan sales rocketed 17,000 % (or something like this) when the Slim released, so which one is doomed? Or do pourcentages mean nothing without real numbers? I'm lost :/

Make it into what type of thread? Are only literally comments and with no alternative meaning not allowed in here?  I don't get what's the big deal here. 

That wasn't  even fire sale (^_^;)  

I think fire sale's short  effect isn't worth for praise and  discussion.    

Let's see UK monthly hardware sales.

Doesn't count. When speaking of console wars, only the US and UK count, for some reason. 

(note: I'm not saying this thread is straying too far into that, only that the article op quoted does a little too much console comparison. It's a shame, really, it seems like neither console can have a good week save in relation to how the other performs)

I'm going to guess that the almost 100K the PS4 sold in Japan during the Slim launch is more than twice what the XBO sold in the UK on the week of the S launch. In both cases it seems the week prior were just really low thanks to people holding off for the new models, so we have to wait and see if there is a continued rise in sales. I know the 2nd week in Japan was a nice surprise for PS4 sales. 

@ OP 

My guess for the PS4 being down is a lot of people are just going to wait to buy the Pro. The price is so close to the Slim that there's really little to no reason not to upgrade.

I made a large post about it but it just means that the sales one week are 11x the number the previous week, but that is to be expected when a hardware revision like the X1S is being launched, it would be stupid for someone to have bought the old model the previous week unless you knew literally nothing about gaming since you are paying the same money for less so obviously the people who would have naturally been buying X1 units for the last number of weeks would have been on the decline in anticipation of the X1S and as such the big jump doesn't mean it is up 1000% above the baseline of X1 sales, more so means it has jumped up 1000% from the previous week when only derps would have bought the console.

Very Nice!

PS4's slower sales definitely chalked up to be because of PS4 Pro's imminent release. PS4 Slim wasn't designed to change PS4 or recreate the market; just to be the standard model to carry on the sales where the OG model is leaving off. Still excited to see how the Pro will do WW. 

People should also take into account that they're still not giving solid numbers. We got solid numbers when PS4 Slim killed it in JP sales. Here, they're just giving percentages that changed from one week to another. How do we know that the week prior the XB1 sold anymore than 100 consoles? in which case it would only be up to 1100-ish. We know those specific numbers obviously not the case here, but it's easy to take stats and twist them in a way to paint a different picture from the truth is the point.

Good for Microsoft but I wonder how were the numbers of the week before the boost.