I think what DmeisterJ was trying to say is that he is using the marketleader the Wii to show that the PS3 is starting a turnaround. Which is a fair comparision however many posts of his indicating excitemnet at beating the Wii.
However I still feel that the increase of the PS3 sales in Japan is entirely due to sales spike because of a Price Drop and that the spike has been sliding and should level off this week due to pre holiday shopping in Japan. Meanwhile the Wii will begin to see a sales spike due to Wii Fit which will be carried through by Holiday shopping. the question will be how well Wii Fit propel long term sales will it be long enough for Wii Music to come out? Will it have a Nintendogs/Brain Age effect like it did for the DS. Will the PS3 be able to maintain 25K+ a week after the holidays? The Wii sales have been down for a long enough time that it can said they are down but the PS3 sales haven't been up long enough after a new color/price cut combo to say they are up for the long term. there is no guarantee of a turn around for any system.
All I can say is that japanese sales look normal you know like the Pre DS days. The DS was sick constantly selling over 100K a seek even in September even with the recent sales slump the DS was still way above normal way above top sales fro a maintained average. The PSP has performed great but the weeks it beat the DS was due entirely to a redesign it took about a month to level off.
The point here is that from what I understand Sony is still losing money on the PS3 and this is their last card they can play for a long long time. The Wii could probably drop to 149 next week and Nintendo would still be fine.
Sony had to put all of its cards on the table to spike above the competition while Nintendo still has their full hand.
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