Is the PS3 selling badly? Why do you think it is/isn't?

[Final-Fan]

It seems to me that many people are talking as if the PS3 is somehow bombing in sales. Certainly it isn't selling as fast as Sony expected or would like, and obviously the Wii is mopping the floor with it, but really, isn't it unfair to compare ANYTHING to Nintendo's juggernauts?

The PS3 is selling faster WW than the 360, but I never hear people moaning that the 360 is selling poorly.

Here are worldwide weekly sales, working backwards (until an arbitrary stop-point) from the latest data on VGChartz, for all 3 home consoles of this gen:

Wii: 253132, 241512, 240747, 258440, 262994, 282355 (July 15), 235363, 253360, 226371, 230392, 223960, 218891

PS3: 097183, 099026, 099126, 106760, 086027, 090820 (July 15), 060437, 057916, 055018, 058240, 060454, 061139

360: 085533, 078441, 061899, 061762, 057775, 058261 (July 15), 060469, 068776, 067447, 076872, 077037, 062744

Ever since the week ending July 15 (since the price drop), the PS3 has outsold the 360 EVERY SINGLE WEEK, usually by 30 to 40 thousand units -- that is, until the 360's sales jumped 10-20K in the last 2 weeks while the PS3's remained steady. That would be the 360's own price cut, of course -- no big surprise that the PS3's old price was holding back more sales than the 360's was.

Now, I don't think anyone doubts that the 360 will beat PS3 sales in September, but my point is that the PS3 is not selling badly compared to the 360, only compared to the Wii. And I also think that the PS3 will probably beat 360 sales again as soon as the Halo 3 boost dies out.

Thoughts?

P.S. Just to make sure that the sales discrepancy wasn't due to the PS3 being a year younger, I grabbed VGChartz sales data from last year. Counting backwards from the week ending August 27, 2006:

360: 78306, 71379, 68904, 73309, 74194, 73716, 74017, 75562, 77596, 77071, 78565, 79690

So at that time it was selling at a steady 70-80K. I suspect that number was boosted by being the only game in town, but even so it was below current PS3 sales by 20-30K.

[edit: edited lists to save space -- not at the expense of readability, I hope!]