ViolentPhlegm on 13 December 2009
| Mummelmann said: Seeing the somewhat unimpressive sales of last week ww I think its hard to imagine the PS3 topping one million in one week this holiday season, even with FFXIII on the steps in Japan. Japan is simply too small a market for a big enough impact and there's really no huge reason why it would move in the zounds in Eu/Others region on top of that. The NA situation is interesting though, the PS3 is managing something no one thought it ever would simply by way of good bundles; keeping up with the 360 in its supremely best territory (3-4 k off is not exactly a huge lead when we're talking 200k + numbers). |
It all depends on whether or not PS3 sales can rebound in Americas after the post-BF week drop. This week's (Americas + Others) PS3 sales come in at 86.6% of what 360 did last year. That percentage needs to be higher for the week in question because if we apply that percentage against 360 2008 for FFXIII week, (Americas + Others) would come in at 744.2k which would require 255.8k in Japan to make a million.
Kind of a bad week for guessing an appropriate multiplier, though, because of the extremes of the Black Friday swings. Next week will give a clearer picture.
