Back down to 20k a week now, will GM give PS3 the boost it so desperately needs??

Gundam is the second best selling game on Amazon.jp so demend is pretty good I suppose. PS3 is also higher day after day. First Gundam was real crap (reviews). 130k copies sold notwithstanding. This game is good (9 8 8 8 - Famitsu) so maybe it wil became one more reason to buy a PS3 for many Japanese. I hope so. I think situation isn't dramatic. I believe Wii will not beat PS3 during week of Musou (PS3 around 100k, Wii below 60k).

How do you define "save the PS3"? No, it won't save it. It might sell 35-40k h/w units over the week, and 100-110k units of S/W. Very good increase, but nothing great. It's not a Blue Dragon-type thing to where they're bundlnig it at a very cheap cheap deal. The PS3 is still far too expensive to do massive sales. The true games that will save the PS3 are FFXIII and MGS4 + a price drop. What Sony NEEDS is a price drop + big title, not just the title. 100k this week, better hold than VF5...Maybe down to 25k or 30k next week.

I could be wrong, but thought I read that Gundam Musuo could only sell 140k its first week because that is how many will hit stores; if this is true I would expect the PS3 to sell less than 70k because I would anticipate (at least) half the sales of the game will come from existing PS3 owners.

Remember the PS3 is already cheaper in Japan, about $420 for the 20gb and $510 for the 60gb.