| CrazzyMan said: @Stever89, you see..http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=PS3®1=America&cons2=PS3®2=Japan&cons3=PS3®3=Total+Other&start=39026&end=39082 if there wouldn`t be DEMAND, sales wouldn`t go down by the end of november. In realuty, Sony shipped only 400k PS3 in november, and MOST of them to USA. PS3 was sold out till middle of January, if not longer. I can hardly believe Sony wasn't making as many as 50,000 a week for just Japan, Just look at the graph, NOW you can believe. =)))))There WAS supply problems in Japan. it was you who thought the comparison wasn't fair, NO, i just asked YOU "is that Fair?". =) That's why I said "no it's not, that's why I used Europe [in the lasted posts]. But you compared sales in others, instead of Europe. Numbers were taken from Others, not from Europe in your first post. Why you at all used them? For what point? it's just that Sony launched the PS3 at too high of a price point. They stil sold around 4 mln. PS3 at 600$ price. =) Do you imagine wii or x360 for 600$ making 4 mln. in first 8 month? =) it'll have that appeal, but I fear by then the Wii and 360 will have taken much of that market away, ps3 399$ selling on pair with ps2, which was for 299$ for whole year, and without competitors. You should fear 299$ ps3 price, really. =))+ Wii takes some casual sales, but many hardcore gamers will go for ps3, even if they bought wii. ps2/gc/xbox were offering similar gaming experience, ps3/x360/wii offer different gaming experience. Though x360 and ps3 are close, but PS3 will just outperform x360 in overall. |
Japan has a slower start to the holiday period than the US does. The Wii also experienced a drop after first week, though it did launch with more units, but it didn't really recover at all the next week. So I still don't really believe. Also, I think a lot of sales were eBayers thinking the PS3 would be out of stock for a while with it's limited launch stock. I suppose they should have betted on the Wii. =) Link
You originally asked if it was fair. I was merely showing how it could, should, and is a fair comparison. Since it showed that the PS3 was doing better than the 360 and Wii, that's why I asked if we should ignore it, because we wouldn't want the PS3 shed in good light, would we? =)
Which exactly is my "first post"? The one back on the first page? Yes, I did use "Total Others" to show how each console had done up to that point in "Total Others," to the point to show how each of them have done so far. I even said "NOTE: Since the Hong Kong release of the PS3 is included in "OThers" data, but it was release with Japan, that's why the PS3 only sells 13,000 the first 18 weeks. If you move the PS3 line to start at the release it in Europe, it's always above the sales of the GC." We I started doing my complete comparison, I switched to Europe only, as a way to eliminate those 18 weeks of Hong Kong only sales.
Though I don't see the Wii or 360 doing 4 millio, they aren't made to cost that much. If the Wii cost $500/600, who knows how it'd sell, because it would be capable of far more than it is now. Same with the 360. Same with saying, how the PS3 would have sold at $300 at launch. Also, up to the point of the price cut (roughly 7/12/07), the PS3 had sold roughly 3.8 million, and had been out for about 8 months. That's roughly 110,000 units a week, which is roughly the same as the GameCube average weekly first year sales. After the price cut, sales doubled in both NA and Japan(I believe Japans price cut was a few weeks after NA), but in actual units, it only increased 50,000 units. It did sustain higher sales in America for 8 weeks, but the Japan sales fell back to normal sales after 3 or 4 weeks.
The bolded part is the weirdest. The PS3 hasn't been selling on par with the PS2, unless you mean the first two weeks of the year? And if the PS3 falls much farther this week, it won't hit PS2 numbers, and then next week the PS2 actually saw a boost, which I don't think the PS3 will see. The PS2 did have a compeditor, the Dreamcast, though I'm not sure if that counts. I do agree with you that the PS3 will outperform the 360.
