NA Sales UP! MGS4 & 80GB Ps3 week!

[Stever89]

I'm disappointed in Nintendo's ability to ship units to America, to "counter" MGS4.

There are a few possibilities though, the first of which is that they are stockpiling for Brawl's Europe/Others release, which is in a few weeks. Though since America has bounced from 150k to 250k weekly, I would think that they wouldn't worry about more than 200k extra units for the first and week after Brawl's release (meaning 250k available first week, then 250k available the week after). So I'm a bit surprised sales have been this low for this long, just because of that.

The other possibility that I can think of is that some manufacturing plant is either down or not producing as high as usual, because of them increasing production to 2.4 million.

Of course, they may just be starting a major stockpile for the holiday season, and thus 150k in America, 150k in Europe, and 40k in Japan should be the expected normal for the rest of the year, except for big releases, and of course once the holiday season comes around.

Overall, not a bad week, except for the PSP and 360, which kinda get lost in the monster sales of the other platforms. Can't wait to see software, though it'll mostly be boring stuff except for MGS4 numbers and how much WiiFit has sold this week (see how supply is going).