In a CrazzyMan post, he wanted us to only discussing PS3 to PS2 sales, and told us to go make another thread to discuss other sales comparisons, so I decided I'd go ahead and put together a small (ie: LARGE) comparison of the 3 current-gen systems available on the market today.
This is the last of comparisons per region. This 6th part will compare 7th generation sales to 6th generation sales for each console, in Europe, aligned from launch. Weekly sales, total sales, and brief comparisons will be given. Links will be given as well. For size purposes, no graphs will actually be shown.
In Europe: Because of the staggered PS3 launches across the “Others” region, I’m using only Europe, so that everything lines up better
Wii, PS3, 360 Total Sales from Launch (58 weeks)
Wii, PS3, 360 Weekly Sales from Launch (58 weeks)
PS2, PS3, Wii Total Sales from Launch (58 weeks)
PS2, PS3, Wii Weekly Sales from Launch (58 weeks)
GCN, PS3, 360 Total Sales from Launch (58 weeks)
GCN, PS3, 360 Weekly Sales from Launch (58 weeks)
- NOTE: With the differences in the time between launch and Christmas, the boosts from Christmas are slightly different, thus the boost for the PS3 comes a bit sooner
Total Sale Comparison:
PS2 - 5.77 million
PS3 - 3.62 million (roughly 17 weeks behind)
360 - 2.28 million
GameCube - 1.66 million
Wii - 5.83 million
Conclusions:
- The 360, PS3, and Wii have all sold similar amounts near the beginning, but then the Wii started to pull away, followed by the PS3 (who then quickly caught up to, and passed, the Wii sales at that point in it’s lifetime)
- Not much can be said about weekly sales for the 3 current gen systems
- The Wii and PS2 have very similar lings up to this point
- PS3 has surpassed the PS2 sales at that point in it’s lifetime, though the Christmas boost came early for the PS3 (since Christmas falls at different times in the chart); the next couple months will be more telling
- You can see the effects of the 40GBs release (I believe) for the PS3; the weekly sales jump, then decline (a bit) then the holiday season begins
- GameCube in Europe – epic failure
This is the last part, unless I find some other way to look at the data.
