routsounmanman said:
We should wait until February (after the Japanese January rush) to draw such conclusions. |
Exactly. Sales around this time of year are so sporatic that it really isn't possible to draw any solid conclusions. You have to look at the buying habits when individules are not compelled to make purchases, and companies are not compelled to inflate sales numbers for PR spin.
Take Nintendo for example, if they out sell the DS this week, say 1.3 - 1.5 mil worldwide, no one will remember this week's poor sales (most likely due to carefully planed production and release scheduled to fulfil Regie's "record setting" prophecy.)
You can be guarenteed that you will hear a ton about the amazing Wii sales for next week though...
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