Wii will have to fight really hard to win the weeks from BF to year's end WW this year, XB360 and PS3 aged a lot better, let's see how they sold the weeks before BF this year and how they did last year (alas the week immediately before this year's BF isn't available yet, so I omitted it for last year too to compare fairly and meaningfully the two periods):
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 02nd Oct 2011 to 12th Nov 2011:
| Console | Wii | PS3 | X360 |
|
Total
|
1,205,004
|
1,799,564
|
1,637,215
|
|
America
|
575,819
|
597,328
|
973,433
|
|
Japan
|
70,954
|
156,336
|
9,593
|
|
Total Others
|
558,231
|
1,045,900
|
654,189
|
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 03rd Oct 2010 to 13th Nov 2010:
| Console | Wii | PS3 | X360 |
|
Total
|
1,544,370
|
1,711,155
|
1,624,070
|
|
America
|
678,465
|
577,089
|
962,587
|
|
Japan
|
97,505
|
128,905
|
14,829
|
|
Total Others
|
768,400
|
1,005,161
|
646,654
|
Wii starts noticeably weaker, while both PS3 and XB360 start stronger YoY, and we start hearing XB360, despite the older age, could have achieved record BF sales. Now, we know that despite starting 3rd last year too, Wii won the holidays anyway, but starting even lower, and with new HW to steal the thunder and Wii having very few new big titles, this year it will be a lot harder, not impossible, but harder (notice that XB360 and Wii roughly swapped positions for BF this year, according to the limited data we have now, could be indicative of a different holidays boosts trend compared to the past)
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 21st Nov 2010 to 27th Nov 2010 (BF 2010 week):
| Console | Wii | PS3 | X360 |
|
Total
|
1,000,067
|
765,116
|
885,353
|
|
America
|
630,401
|
371,904
|
675,629
|
|
Japan
|
40,736
|
65,618
|
4,284
|
|
Total Others
|
328,930
|
327,594
|
205,440
|
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 21st Nov 2010 to 01st Jan 2011:
| Console | Wii | PS3 | X360 | PSP | DS |
|
Total
|
6,797,875
|
4,464,416
|
4,969,830
|
2,826,536
|
6,975,498
|
|
America
|
3,497,761
|
1,783,259
|
3,292,431
|
745,497
|
3,853,963
|
|
Japan
|
499,108
|
333,534
|
25,885
|
986,986
|
701,199
|
|
Total Others
|
2,801,006
|
2,347,623
|
1,651,514
|
1,094,053
|
2,420,336
|
