PS3 will sell regular one million per month sales in Europe/Other region

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Skeeuk said:

ps3 sales WILL pick up (they are doing so already) and will eventually sell massivley worldwide, its only in its second year and some people still write it off lol

going into xmas 2009 it will move collosus amounts for sure, and if a possible £199 price point can be reached at that time, well all i can say theres nothing better for the money.

 

PS3 sales are not on the rise right now, its been selling at a steady rate pretty much all year with the exception of GTA IV launch week, and it has returned almost completely to normal the following week. There is a very slight uptrend there, but both the PS3 and 360 are experiencing it as of the most recent data.  

 

 

Squall_Leonhart said:
Whats the average weekly sales for the PS3 so far this year anyway? I mean it is much, much better than last year!

Here is some data you might find interesting, it actually does a good job of explaining why the PS3 has improved but is selling at a steady pace right now nonetheless. First we have data for the lifetime of all three consoles:

 

	WW LTD
	Xbox 360	Playstation 3	Wii
Mean	146k	160k	335k
Median	109k	127k	275k
1st Quartile	83k	79k	235k
IQR	74k	111k	136k
3rd Quartile	157k	190k	371k
Std. Dev.	107k	119k	193k
Min	61k	49k	150k
Max	611k	615k	1,468k

Next we have data for post-holidays:

 

	Post-Holidays '07
	Xbox 360	Playstation 3	Wii
Mean	151k	201k	345k
Median	135k	189k	318k
1st Quartile	128k	178k	273k
IQR	32k	19k	105k
3rd Quartile	160k	196k	378k
Std. Dev.	38k	49k	103k
Min	117k	153k	212k
Max	264k	359k	668k

 

I will point out that in terms of indicators for the "normal" performance of a console I usually prefer median values. I point this out here because it shows that lifetime the PS3 median was around 127k and the Post-Holiday median is 189k. The PS3 increase happened from October through December. The increase has stopped for now though and the PS3 is simply peforming at a higher sales level than it was last year...it is not however increasing.

Enjoy the tables~