No signs of any new baseline or average on 360 sales. May not drop to the 70-80k/wk. most of us expect till after Reach now. If at all this year. Correct me if I'm wrong but that looks a bit like the start of a SW boost as well. RDR has swung back in 360's favour as has Fallout 3, AC2 etc. and someone is buying ME2 so maybe the 360 B (for Black) is starting to affect SW finally. Meaning that at least some of them are going to new owners. Come on admit it! Does the 20k for ODST indicate a small pre-Reach HW swell as well? Why wouldn't a new buyer wait for the bundle though? Most ODST sales must be existing owners I guess. There are 6m Halo 3 buyers who didn't get ODST. Who knows.
From Rhonin's post the most obvious no. to me is that PS3 is up 23m YoY SW right now. That will settle a bit but not like HW YoY. There are 15m more PS3 owners than this time last year. October should be up YoY unless most of VGC is way off on GT5's impact and multi-plat sales are a lot closer now for obvious reasons. The 360 is already up almost 10m and will catch PS3 overall for SW in 2010 and start pulling farther away from their own 2009 totals in about two weeks. A good year for SW and for profits I think. Thanks Rhonin.
To those who were saying the gap was never 8m here is WW Weekly Aug. 22, 2009.
| DS | 384,437 | (-6%) | 108,546,381 |
| Wii | 185,085 | (-16%) | 52,230,122 |
| PSP | 122,262 | (-10%) | 50,756,896 |
| X360 | 104,432 | (-8%) | 31,201,088 |
| PS3 | 86,327 | (-8%) | 22,657,164 |
| PS2 | 75,952 | (-1%) | 133,327,327 |
That's 8,544,924 in case you don't have you're calculators handy. I remember thinking before the PSlim announcement that the 360 would hit 40m before the PS3 hit 30m. What a turnaround.
I know darth and co. are just kidding but PS3 is doomed? Puhleeeaasse. The downward trend in YoY nos. doesn't mean Sony won't be selling every box at a profit for a change and as stated the userbase for SW has taken an amazing jump in 12 months. Wasn't Wii doomed last week? It doesn't take much to get those things to move. This year could still be the old story that ends with the little piggy going Wii, Wii, Wii all the way to the bank. This year Ninty will just have some company.
