Why can't the U just be a late bloomer?

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padib said:

Teeqoz said:

But why're you starting at Feb 03 and stopping at Jul 07? The sales jump to 90k in the week ending Jul 14 without any big releases, while it's at 74, 79, and90k respectively in the three weeks before Feb 03.

 

I'll admit though that my first comment where I asked if you had checked the numbers I only started at the corresponding week of the year (Aug 25th) and only checked the weeks close to that, so that's why I was off on my numbers there.

 

And you still haven't told me why you're comparing PS3 first year sales with Wii U second year sales.

 

Oh and, I edited my comment that you quoted because when I first made it I had only checked the four weeks straight after the crazy boost, and I assumed that it was a baseline boost. Straight after I had commented that I went back to the numbers and saw that it didn't get a baseline of ~100k that I assumed so I changed my comment.

Cool cool, no worries.

I stopped at July 7th because that's where the first baseline ends and becomes a new baseline (like for U how 30k becomes a new baseline of 60k). I don't remember what happened in that time for the PS3, but I'm guessing something happened to drive up the baseline (e.g. drive up sales consistently, not just a peak). Any ideas what may have driven sales up as of that week, a 3rd party game?

@Xevross. I was talking about the PS3's baseline right out of launch. Were you thinking I meant 65.7k as to correct my 60k U baseline statement? I haven't changed on that one, and am not really interested in getting the exact numbers because like you said it doesn't change much.

The huge spike around march/april had to do with PS3 launching in Europe.

While the increase in baseline had to do with the 100$ price cut that PS3 got.