Prediction: PS3 will at least equal the lifetime sales of the Wii, in Europe

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You can't really compare the previous generation and this one for the following reason :

Last generation the PS2, Xbox360 and GameCube shared a lot of third parties game so there was less incentive for the owner of of them to buy any of the others.

This generation it seems the Wii and the PS3 will share very few games so the fact that the Wii is saturating the market doesn't necessary spell failure for the PS3. The gaming experience they provide is different and you could easilly see lots of families owning both...

Some people are forgetting too that the PS3 hasn't been out for a full year in Others yet and it has only been out through one Holyday season, compared to 2 for the Wii and 3 for the Xbox360.... 

And in both it's other territory the PS3 is tracking higher than one year ago in sales so you can expect the same thing to happen for the PS3 1 year from now in Others...

The PS3 is tracking roughly on par with the PS2 at the same period in Others too ( hard to make a comparison as they did not come out at the same time of the year and Holydays mess up things).

PS3 is on week 49 in Others.

If you compare the first 49 weeks of the Wii, the PS2 and the PS3, the PS3 is actually leading by a very small margin ( Wii should pass it in a few weeks because weeks 50-56 of Wii were actually holyday season 2 for the Wii).