How did anyone NOT see this coming from a year away? The PS3 was ready for an upset. In Japan, the PS2 barely sold better than the PS1 did. The DS started really taking off last year, and consumer trends showed that PS2 sales were beginning to become sluggish there - signaling a trend and desire for a different type of console format - a Wii kind of format. I'll try to find my huge post from a year ago on Xbox's forums showing exactly why I figured it'd happen this way. Also, Nintendo didn't majorly ramp up production, they merely held quite a few systems back for this week (remember the 2-3 weeks that sales were greatly below 60k?). Expect next week's sales to be 85-90k, then return to a normal 60-70k a week.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
