The Wii broke the 400k barrier by a definite margin, the last time such a feet gad taken place was all the way back to December 2006. It is worth noting that these numbers have been proppeled to such heights thanks to the release of one major title, SMG, and other good(RE :UC, GH3, RRR3 etc) titles over a short timepsan. It is worth noticing that we can expect even greater sales in the upcoming week as there have been plenty of signs(TRU special Wii deals, black friday, news from europe regarding amazon etc) suggesting even greater sales in both USA and Europe. It may be good on our side to get prepared for a shocker, a 500k+ week sale, some 28 days before christmas..Sales may be even higher if Japan finally kicks into gear for the soon to be had holidays. Other than that, plenty of promising software to still be released in the land of the rising sun.
The xbox360 outsold the PS3....by a very small margin, less than 2k units. Even so, the hardware sales for the US and Europe are fairly good (250k combined) at this point of the year, one must commend the xbox for putting up such a fight against the PS3 despite practically null sales in Japan(5k). Over 150 k units sold in the US and no wonder, with a massive release lineup over the last weeks, the xbox has steadingly been moving units to consumer hands through such titles as Orange box, GH3, Assassins Creed, CoD4 and so on. Strangely though, hardware sales didn't rise (imo though) as one would expect with such a host of good games. Still, MS's product continues to dominate software sales overall and that is key.
PS3 clearly gaining momentum all around, except for Japan, which is starting to show signs of lack of proper software in that region, nearly caught up to the xbox360 with a sound 253k units sold. At this point it is still unsafe imo to estimate short term sales till januaury 2008, as continued delays of important titles (Haze, UT) and less than great media coverage on already released supposed system sellers might push away potential buyers. Add poor software performance code-wise compared to xbox counterparts and a four times smaller userbase, we get the full picture of Sony's not too good situation. Thankfully with the release of such titles as R&C:ToD, Assassins Creed and Uncharted, Sony gave potential owners a reason to buy their system. Add to that good games just around the new year corner, and we might end up with boosted Ps3 sales during the christmas holidays, though probably nowhere near wii levels and rather campareable to the xboxs'
Deep into the darkness pearing
Long i stood there
Wondering
Fearing
Doubting.
