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enrageorange on 28 November 2011
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postofficebuddy said:
Seece said:
postofficebuddy said:
kopstudent89 said:
"The Nintendo Wii had its biggest Black Friday ever more with than 500,000 units sold just during Black Friday and the pre-Black openings at some stores, he says."

WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT!! 500k is biggest BF for Wii?


Last year they said they did 600k but that was for the full week, this is just for BF (and stores that opened late Thursday). So going by BenVTriggers projection of PS3 being just slightly below Wii this means that PS3 should be over 500k across Americas.

Hopefully Sony release an estimate, the estimate I've been given isn't anywhere near 500k though.


What was the estimate you got for the Wii? Considering pretty much every piece of anecdotal and inside information suggested PS3 outselling Wii outside of Walmart that seems rather odd. Particularly considering Wii's total Americas sales for the full week are likely comfortably over 600k.

Anecdotal evidence is completely irrelevent to actual sales. People see what they want to see. Also the data for ps3 being close to wii is in gamestop stores which isn't too impressive considering the wii did not get a pricedrop at gamestop while the ps3 did. On the other hand the wii was 99$ at walmart which would be were the vast majority of sales happened. I wouldn't expect ps3 numbers to be close to wii numbers for black friday weekend.