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kowenicki said:
postofficebuddy said:
kowenicki said:
snfr said:
kowenicki said:
trasharmdsister12 said:
kowenicki said:

oh bollocks ... yes.  sorry. fixed.

No need to apologize. Keep up the great work!


Interesting that only the 360 shows YOY growth and that is comes in TWO (yes two) regions....

Well, what did you expect? With Kinect and the slim it would be weird if it was down or just flat YOY. And the PS3 and the Wii didn't have anything that pushed sales over a longer time (Wii holiday bundles did boost sales really well, and Move and GT5 also did a good job, but that isn't really comparable to Kinect in terms of impact on sales).

thats not really my point....  I do not disagree with you.

But, I keep reading that the 360 success this year is down solely to the US numbers... false.  Its up everywhere except Japan... where it hardly even matters given the size of the numbers there.

I also keep reading how the PS3 is killing in the EMEAA... and yet its down, performing worse than in 2010.  The fall of the Wii is merely showing the PS3 in a better light.

In other words... its all relatrive and the Wii performance is skewing some peoples view on things.


You seem to be overlooking some major overarching facts. Sure PS3 is down YOY in EMEAA but it's not by a large amount. This week it's only down 10k YOY in EMEAA. And the numbers that it was posting last year were genuinely dominating. Take a look at the same week back in 2008.

ConsoleWeekly (change)Total
DS 198,863 ( 23%) 23,497,326
Wii 104,740 (-4%) 6,640,142
PSP 83,690 (-1%) 13,155,848
PS2 80,673 (0%) 53,347,774
PS3 58,540 (-2%) 4,102,084
X360 43,801 ( 2%) 5,412,720
Total570,307( 6%) 

I'm sure you don't need this to remind you how well the Wii was doing back then. You mocked how little difference 360's YOY decline is in Japan and yet if the current trend continues Japan's YOY declines could end up canceling out its YOY increases in EMEAA. And PS3's YOY declines in Japan are so small it'll probably be almost eliminated once the silver PS3 model comes out over there.

eh?

the 360  is down 7000 for the whole year so far in Japan and is up 35,000 in EMEAA so far...  so no, if that current trend continue then clearly the gap could ONLY widen....

Really? PS3 DOWN, 360 UP... PS3 > 360... the GAP decreasing.