year over year numbers
PS3 - 152k = 4k up or 1% up.
360 - 118k = 2k up or 1% up.
Wii - 226k = 5k up or 2% up.
So the three main consoles are selling roughly at the same rate as last year.
What is interesting is as ioi mentioned in another thread traditionally this time now is the dark period for sales. The drops become high.
For example the following week last year saw
Ps3 drop to 103k, a drop of 51k (33%), from the previous week.
360 drop to 103k, a drop of 15k (14%), from the previous week.
Wii drop to 207k, a drop of 19k (8%), from the previous week.
So if we use last years drop % into this years we could see these numbers next week.
PS3 = 104k - down 33%
360 = 112k - down 15%
Wii = 215k - down 14%
Which if that happens would see PS3 return to 3rd place.
This time last year saw the PS3 and 360 sell worldwide nearly identical numbers, selling basically neck and neck until the 6th of june 2009. By which time 360 had started to pull away again due to the numbers it was posting in america. By 25th april 2009 saw 360 numbers in america nearly double PS3 numbers with 50k 360's to 30k PS3's.
So what is interesting about that is for PS3 to avoid history repeating it must not drop 33% next week. Meaning it will have to stay above the 1% year over year increase rate it currently has. Seeing as in the last 2 weeks it has dropped 70k+ that will be very close.
The question is how will the US numbers go because we could be seeing history repeat itself. PS3 numbers return to normal in others with a 15k gap in PS3 favour. And a 15k gap in Japan in PS3 favour. But in america the gap is 30k in 360 favour. It would not surprise me one bit to see that happen in the next 4 weeks. Which if it does it very bad news for PS3. To be selling neck and neck before the obvious 360 price cut.
