PS2 2001 sales numbers vs PS3 2008 sales numbers =)

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Nothing can stop Ps3? I'd assume the fact that there are only 6.5B people on the planet, would stop it from selling more than that.

Ok, I kind of misunderstood you, but hey, now you're twisting numbers even more than I thought!

I believe that what you are doing, is kind of what Norwegian media does. They make everything look the way they want it, and half the population eats it as if it was raw fish! (sushi).

If you really wondered what my point was, which I doubt you did, read my post again. I think it came out pretty clearly what I was saying. If it wasn't feel free to ask what part you don't understand, and I'll re-write it for you.

The problem with solely comparing sales, is that X360/Wii/Ps3 does in total sell much more then XB/GCN/Ps2. The reason the Ps2 took off, was that 3rd party went over too it, because there were slightly higher sales on it. The longer into the gen, the more obvious it became. That's the problem for the Ps3, the competition does so that 3rd party won't become solely Ps3. I know it has good 3rd party, but the others have similary good games.

Solution: take how much of the market share it gets. I believe that will make it more precise.

Now, math time. Where did you get your weekly numbers? The weekly does not have other sales than Japan, so I guess the best thing to do is use the hardware table.

As Stever so nice pointed out, it is a little unfair to compare those, but we'll do it your way now, not the smart guy's (Steve)

Anyway, here we go.

Ps3 total sales from week ending 06th to week ending 27th: 742K. Remember, this has a slight bit of last year's holiday here.

The total sales in the same time, for the consoles, was 2659K.

742/2659 = 0,288 = 28.8 % market share.

Ps2 total sales form 7th to 28th (remember, this gets less from the holiday than Ps2) = 709K

Total sales of the gen (including N64 and Ps1): 870K.

709/870=0.814 = 81.4 %.

As you see, the Ps2 has a much larger % at the time, which means it took almost all the sales. Just as 360 did first year...

If you want a more fair comparison, you take 02.

Ps2 1.5M
Total gen: 2.1M
% = 71.

So Ps2 had a far bigger % which means Ps3 won't get the domination Ps2 had, which will result in it not getting as big bonuses over the year as Ps2 had.

Once again, if you don't understand, feel free to ask.