Has Europe sales saved PS3 this Christmas from an embarrasment?

[Peter Potamus]

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Mountie said:

Why do I have to keep correcting you Avinash? Can you please get your facts straight. The PS3 has not been selling far weaker than the GCN. WW its outselling the GCN:

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=GC®1=All&cons2=PS3®2=All&cons3=X360®3=------&weeks=156

In Japan, its behind by what? 75,000? That's hardly, "far weaker":

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=GC®1=All&cons2=PS3®2=All&cons3=X360®3=------&weeks=156

The fact is that the GCN sold worse in its 2nd year than its first, and that's a console killer. There's no chance that'll happen with the PS3.

As far as your prediction, the PS2 & PS3 have outsold the Wii this year, so thus far you've gone backwards. Are we including the PSP as well? Because then it would just be embarrassing.

We were talking about Japan, and now you go running off to WW, you call that correcting, don't avoid the argument by running on a tangent, fact is its selling worse than GCN in Japan, and it has yet to sell enough weekly to actually catch the GCN, lets see if it can even sell enough to catch up before you assume it'll sell 8 million.

 

Yeah Wii has suffered from supply constraints and yet it has beaten the PS2's first 57 weeks in every market, again you run off on a tangent rather than argue the actual point, adding PS3 to the equation is irrelevant because of Wii's supply constraint, is it not beating the PS2, yes it is, is the PS3 selling worse than the GCN yes it is, has the PS3 yet to sell over 100K in a week yes it does, correcting something actually means you need to show that i'm wrong about something, you haven't

Japan is not the only country in the world, don't you know that? We could care less about the Japanese market alone. Just so you know, this website tracks WORLDWIDE sales.

You have yet to prove that third party support is helping the Wii.

How does supply constraints help the Wii? Once the holidays have past what will push people to buy the Wii if they couldn't get one during the season where they are willing to spend more money? I'm not saying that the Wii won't sell after the holidays, but because of the price constraints they lost units that would have been sold in a blink of an eye.

Hell if they can't provide systems during the holidays what makes you think they can produce enough units to outsell the PS2, let alone the entire Playstation family?