Is PS3 REALLY selling that badly?

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Just_Ben said:

kuraobi said:
You shouldn't compare with PS1 & PS2 WW sales, these were launched 9 months later in Europe than in Japan. But you may compare separately for Japan, US and Others.

 

I Know and it doesn't realy matter, if you define $Success is same selling as ps2, than ps3 is a success at the moment. What did Sony say is success for them?

 

It matters a lot, it means that Sony doesn't have any strong market at all compared to last time. Heck PS2 had sold more than 3 million consols at this time in Japan alone, PS3 has a hard time passing 1 million. PS2 have never sold as bad as it is doing now in Japan. Last generation PS2 was in the situation that Wii is in now, totally crushing the competition. So yes it matters.

http://www.vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii®1=Japan&cons2=PS3®2=Japan&cons3=PS2®3=Japan&align=1

PS3 is actually even tracking behind the GameCube, in japan (which ended on only 4 millions)

http://www.vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=GC®1=Japan&cons2=PS3®2=Japan&cons3=PS2®3=Japan&align=1

So for the moment in at least Japan PS3 is selling bad.

 

EDIT: the same can be said about USA:

http://www.vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=America&cons2=PS3&reg2=America&cons3=GC&reg3=America&align=1