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numonex on 17 September 2009
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CGI-Quality said:
numonex said:
It is not over yet. Do not count your chickens before they have hatched. The PS3 Slim launch was just a spike in sales due to people having delayed purchases of PS3 waiting for a year for the PS3 to fall to a reasonable price and there were the owners who simply upgraded to the new PS3 Slim 120GB model.

The Wii price cut will slow down both the PS3 and 360 sales.

You call going from 103,000 one week, to 550,000 another and 306,000 another, "just a spike"? I guess we'll see won't we, the weeks of truth are closing in...

We should wait for the monthly NPD/Media Create/GfK numbers before we jump to any conclusions. There will be adjustments made that will change the VGC numbers. Anyway I will say over tracked if the PS3 does some how outsell the XBox 360 by more than 1 million units in total for the year. I will accept the PS3 outselling the 360 by 1 million or less units in 2009 due to it being at a more affordable price and having more games available.

Fall from 550k to 306k -  next week will be around 200k. Just a spike due to the delayed PS3 Slim launches. PS3 Slim launched in NA on August 24. PS3 Slim launched in Europe and Japan on September 1.

@tedsteriscool - the Wii is competing with both PS3 and 360. They are all game consoles selling to consumers and the  Wii sales impact on the other two systems. Wii @ $199 would appear more attractive in price than a PS3 or an XBox 360 especially for children who have the most time to play video games. The parents will definitely buy Wii instead of the PS360 due to games being more family orientated. Believe or not the Wii is competing against both the XBox 360 and  the PS3.