Why the NPD PS3/360 sales make sense, weekly comparison

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FishyJoe said:

Feb NPD

1. Ps2 351.8K 88/wk
2. Ps3 280.8K 71/wk
3. Psp 243.1K 61/wk
4. 360 254.6K 64/wk
5. NDS 587.6K 147/wk
6. Wii 432K 108/wk

Take a look at March sales:

1. Wii - 721k, 144k/wk (33% increase)
2. DS - 698k, 140/wk
3. PSP - 297k, 59k/wk
4. X360 - 262k, 52k/wk (19% drop)
5. PS3 - 257k, 51k/wk (28% drop)
6. PS2 - 216k, 43k/wk (51% drop)

Now April:

1. Wii - 714k, 178k/wk (+24%)
2. DS - 415k, 104k/wk (-26%)
3. PSP - 193k, 48k/wk (-19%)
4. X360 - 188k, 47k/wk (-10%)
5. PS3 - 187k, 47k/wk (-8%)
6. PS2 - 124k, 31k/wk (-28%)

Notice that the DS, PSP and PS2 suffered huge declines? The PS3/360 sales declines are much less than the weekly declines of the DS/PSP/PS2. That means the PS3/360 outperformed them for April by a fairly significant margin.

What would cause this outperformance of the DS/PSP/PS2? It has to be GTAIV, so yes indeed sales were improved over what could have been an otherwise dreadful month.

Notice how the Ps2 suffered a huge decline? the Ps3/360 declines are much less. That means the Ps3 and 360 just cant be compared to different platforms. Your logic fails.

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Using March and Aprils NPD numbers and not going back more is called cherry picking