| the_dengle said:
If you have redefined the meaning of "rocky launch" to the point that the PS3's does not fit your definition, you have done something wrong. You're cherrypicking definitions and numbers to tell yourself that the Wii U's launch was worse than the PS3's. Oh, it took less time to reach a weekly low point lower than the PS3's. That's nice. It doesn't change the fact that the Wii U has sold more consoles LTD than the PS3 had in the same period. You know, how normal people measure launch sales: with actual cumulative sales, not with weekly averages of an arbitrary mid-launch-period set of weeks. Wii U LTD in the US after 15 weeks: ~1,063,000 I know those first two weeks the PS3 had are troublesome for some people. Let's give it 17, then: 1,028,680 Not to mention Japan, since you're focusing solely on NA here. *Gee, I wonder why that could be...* Wii U LTD in Japan after 13 weeks: 806,691 |
Speaking of cherrypicking... I like how you were diligent enough to correct for the undertracking in February, while leaving in the overtracking in 2012. Your figure is 55k higher than the NPD figure. Per NPD from November-February, the PS3 sold 1058.7k the Wii U sold 1008k. Of course the PS3 has one more week in that comparison since it launched earlier, but it is unlikely that the Wii U will sell 50k+ the first week of march.
