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The issue with DQS vs. EG5 for hardware sales:

Unless Nintendo has intentionally held units back for DQS (which I doubt), there's no way that it'd maintain a 6:1 lead. If anything, it'll be back to 4:1 or so.

The reason the ratios have become stronger with the Wii sales is NOT because the Wii is selling better, it's because the PS3 is selling worse. If that trend gets bucked for a few weeks with EG5, then the ratios will decrease.

Lets say it looks like this: PS3 averages 9k units a week until EG5, then moves 35k over the next, and last week of July. That'd equal out to 62k in 4 weeks, an increase of 21,000 units over last month. The Wii would have a much harder time to get a proportional (basically 200% increase), as that'd never happen. Nintendo can't hold back 140,000 units for DQS's launch.

The ratio should be around 4.5:1 for July, and maybe 4.0:1 for August. I just wonder what the ratio for the 360:PS3 is in Japan :-p



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.