TWRoO said: leo-j said: You mean this week viper There are two weeks left of sales data for 2008 viper Well technicly imo it can hit 20M, the week ending JAN 3 or w.e Doubtful. At the end of this week if we add 50k for Japan (The Source preview 45-55k) you get the number 18.83 million.... considering this should be the biggest week of the year, and PS3 managed under 550k, it is not going to make 1.17 million even if the next 2 weeks are both the same as this week.... but they won't, they will be less.

 

 The man speaks the truth. I mean you have to be a huge fanboy to believe a the PS3 will make 1.17m worldwide in the next 7 days, just not going to happen. This week was the biggest week of the year and has always been that. Next week sales will drop off a lot, then the 1st week onwards of January sparks the bad 3 months for console sales. Sony and its PS3 are going into that period dead last, the most expensive, dropping week over week % and the least wanted console. It will not just generate the interest people think it will, that is pure fantasy. Here in UK you could get a PS3 for £250 with LBP the whole of last week. That is only £50 more then the elite 360. But the sales figures show people didnt give a crap, in fact its sales dropped by nearly 100%, that is not a good sign at all.

If you look at the final week of december you see these numbers

PS3 sold 400k WORLDWIDE for last week of december 2007

Then look at the previous three weeks for december 2008

20th dec = 485k worldwide

13th dec = 400k worldwide

6th dec = 348k worldwide

So basically your saying the PS3 will sell what it has sold for every week of december COMBINED. An increase over this week by over 200%.

Not going to happen

I get reported for saying someone pulled #'s out of there ass, and nobody says anything about calling me an idiot fanboy oh well..

@HYUKEN

dude , sales for this week are the week ending DEC 20, the next week is the week ending DEC 27, so add 18.83M, plus the biggest week of the year, which is the current week we are in, lets say 600k, 19.43M.

NOW THERE ARE STILL 4 DAYS LEFT OF 2008, within those 4 days the ps3 can hit 20 million.

Which is why I am saying the week ending JAN 2 or 3, simply because vgchartz doesnt do daily figures.

leo-j said: I get reported for saying someone pulled #'s out of there ass, and nobody says anything about calling me an idiot fanboy oh well.. @HYUKEN dude , sales for this week are the week ending DEC 20, the next week is the week ending DEC 27, so add 18.83M, plus the biggest week of the year, which is the current week we are in, lets say 600k, 19.43M. NOW THERE ARE STILL 4 DAYS LEFT OF 2008, within those 4 days the ps3 can hit 20 million. Which is why I am saying the week ending JAN 2 or 3, simply because vgchartz doesnt do daily figures.

leo-j,

Sorry but the PS3 will not hit 20M this year.  The week that was just reported ended Saturday December 20th.  What is left is Christmas week (this week which ends December 27th) and next week which includes 3 days of 2009.  Looking at last year the week of Christmas dropped compared to the week before in NA at least.  Now this year has 2 extra days before Christmas since Christmas was on Tuesday last year and Thursday this year.  Still 1.2 million over these 2 weeks isnt going to happen.

 

leo-j said: I get reported for saying someone pulled #'s out of there ass, and nobody says anything about calling me an idiot fanboy oh well.. @HYUKEN dude , sales for this week are the week ending DEC 20, the next week is the week ending DEC 27, so add 18.83M, plus the biggest week of the year, which is the current week we are in, lets say 600k, 19.43M. NOW THERE ARE STILL 4 DAYS LEFT OF 2008, within those 4 days the ps3 can hit 20 million. Which is why I am saying the week ending JAN 2 or 3, simply because vgchartz doesnt do daily figures.

No.... it won't.

At the end of this week (Dec 20th) with Japan figures... we must be in agreement it will be around 18.83 million.

NEXT week (Dec 27th) should be slightly smaller than this week, so probably 450-500k for PS3, putting it around 19.3-19.35..... and the final week after that (ending Jan 3rd) will be a huge drop down to half of what this weeks sales were.... so about 275k tops.

That means PS3 ends the year on about 19.6 million.

If you can think of a reason why 400k extra PS3 will be sold, then fine, believe that

 

The only possibility for 20M PS3 by the end of 2008, is for existing sales to be adjusted up because PS3 was being under tracked.

I will probably hit 20M first or second week of January.

tokilamockingbrd said: Paperdiego said: Oyvoyvoyv said: This was expected. Nothing extraordinary here. All these growths should be expected. Wii saw the smallest growth of all the machines.   Differences: DS + 240K (34%) Wii: + 250K (+ 33%) X360: + 150K ( + 38%) Ps3: + 60K (33%) PsP:  + 80K ( + 37%)   PS: Wiistation60, you have the wrong numbers for X360.   fanboy much? according to your numbers there wii wold 250k more than last week, excuse my math skills but isnt that a bigger growth than everything else(especially the closest competition whish only grew over last week as much as150k)?   % increases do not give a good picture. Early in the year the PS3 was get 90% yoy increases but sale really only went up from 50k to 90k. While the wii was get 40% yoy increases but getting bigger increases.

I'm not talking about YoY increases. They don't mean anything. My example was week over week increases (last week to this week) and in that, Wii was the lowest.

 

ps3 may not reach 20 by a single week. :P

i dont understand this?

Seriously, what are the chances of the Wii breaking the PS2's record for biggest December?

Khuutra said: Seriously, what are the chances of the Wii breaking the PS2's record for biggest December?

 

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