WW up march 12th 2011.

[binary solo]

Nice PS3 HW. DS doing well right up to 3DS launch in the rest of the world. PS3 growing it's global 2011 lead, but I think Wii and Kinect will own the holidays again, so for PS3 to take 2011 as the top console it's got to build a pretty big lead during the slower sales times of the year. Tough to do. I'm not sure anyone can predict what price cuts will do this year given all 3 consoles will probably cut prices. In theory PS3 should see the biggest boost being the most expensive console, but who know.

Not too impressed with LBP2 numbers considering it's HEAVILY discounted, well here at least it is (selling for 33% less than the normal new release price in most retailers).

Are my eyes deceiving me or did PS3 get a boost in Aussie/NZ from Dragon Age II? The only region outside Japan where PS3 is up week on week (10%) and DAII's the only thing to launch. Or did Aussie have some special PS3 deals that week?

Bulletstorm putting up good numbers on 360, but it's failing miserably on PS3. KZ3 has really killed it, which is a shame. Speaking of which dropping 43% between Wk2 and 3 is not too shabby for KZ3.

I'm quite amazed that Kinect sales are so heavily skewed towards the Americas. 80K for Americas, 26K for the rest of the world. Does this suggest Kinect is mostly selling to new console buyers, and not so much to existing 360 owners? Across EMEAA Kinect's sales were 50% of 360 sales, in Americas Kinect's sales were 71% of 360 sales. I guess that means reasonable Kinect sales to the 360 base in America's, but minmal sales to the base in EMEAA.

Dragon Age II almost 700K across the 3 platforms. That's pretty decent. And I think proportionally it's similar to Dragon Age: Origins. Though DA:O's start in EMEAA was a bit wierd in that it's first 2 weeks had almost no sales and only in week 3 did it start selling reasonable numbers. So perhaps factoring in that oddity DA II has actually done slightly worse than DA:O on PS3. Even though DA II's style suits consoles more.