DMeisterJ said:
Okay. If that's what everyone wants to say. This was the exact excuse used a few weeks ago when numbers weren't that great in different regions and it was "Nintendo is diverting to Japan for Brawl release", and "nintendo is stockpiling", and when the numbers came (and disappointed), everyone wanted to take back what they said. Now I'm not saying it's gonna happen again, but if it does, prepare to eat crow. But it really doesn't matter. The fact of the matter is it doesn't matter how it happened, the PS3 outsold the Wii in America this week. The FIRST time that it's ever happened. It deserves a celebration.
Does anyone think that Blu-Ray may have had anything to do with this? |
IIRC Blu-Ray's major advances came on Sunday (EDIT: I think I'm actually wrong about that...) which is a bit late for them to majorly effect last week's sales. We should see more clearly the effects of blu-ray's win this week.
Stockpiling is the ONLY reason that this is happening. There's no other reason why shipments would be so low this week, there has never been a huge decrease like this IIRC except for Xmas when they were totally sold out, and had just used up their stockpile.