PS3 breaking Pre-Order Sales records in Europe

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Kwaad said: Crazy stuff? I'm saying ~1.2 million PS3 in March. and ~500,000-600,000 in april. and then 300-400thousand after that. But at the end of march I'm expecting 4.5million more more PS3 worldwide. While Wii will be lucky to hit 6million sold.

The Wii won't do much more than 6mill, as that is Nintendo's figure for shipments as of that point. The PS3 launches late March - I think it will be lucky to sell 1mill in Europe in a week, but its possible (Sony always quote "false" shipment figures anyway). VG has PS3 *now* at about 1.7mill worldwide - about right I would say. So if you think that in 6 weeks *another* 1.7mill PS3's will sell in Japan & the US... you are smoking some wacky stuff ;) (current sales rate in Japan - 6 weeks = 200k.. being nice. That leaves 1.5mill sales in the US in 6 weeks... nope!). I think closer to the 3.5mill mark is realistic - giving the Wii about double the install base, even though it launched later.