gentian on 24 May 2007
Maybe it wasn't clear from my post. This is NOT meant to be a serious way to predict sales. I find it hard to understand what 120,000 a week (Wii in NA) or 8,000 a week (PS3 in Japan) mean. But if the Wii sells 120K in each market each week for 6.5 years, it will sell 120 Million lifetime. If the PS3 sells 8K per week it will sell 8 Million lifetime. Obviously, that isn't going to happen, BUT it gets me a feeling for what numbers mean. Put another way. There really ARE about 1000 major-market weeks in a console generation. That's a useful little factoid to keep around when you are looking at weekly numbers.
