NA + Japan Numbers out!

[blykmik]

Stever89 said:

blykmik said:

Dianko said:
What caused PS3 to rise so much from last week in NA?

The Blu-ray drive is the secret sauce. People are slowly learning about the death of HD-DVD... people are slowly moving to HDTVs.

Sony has a kinda double pronged draw to the PS3 for 2008... 1.) The continual move to HD and the Blu-ray victory... 2.) Some franchise titles and big exclusive games.

 

Some are expecting the Blu-ray angle to be pretty effective:

Research: PS3 To Drive Blu-ray Market, Sell 13 Million Consoles By End Of '08

 

I'm assuming that means 13 million in 2008. Which is pretty good against my estimated 9 million for 360, but not so good compared to 22 or so million for the Wii. They'll be neck and neck with the 360 if my predictions are correct, besides the PS3.

Yeah... they're saying 13 million in all of '08.  That's about 3 million higher than a pretty straitforward analysis might suggest.  If I had to guess, I'd have thrown out 10 million as the '08 total.

I'm not really sure what the 360 will do... I can see it doing  as low as 5.5 million or as much as 9 million... I tend to think it will be close to that 5.5, things can go downhill fast, especially when your direct competition is having a good year.

Either way, I'd agree that they (the 360/PS3) will likely be just around neck and neck at the end of 08...

As for the Wii... no one will be neck and neck with that anytime soon. :)