They are interrelated you do realize correct? From an earlier post: When tracking or attempting to forecast or predict future market share shifts, this needs to be kept in mind. For every DS Lite being purchased that's subtracting essentially 2 to 3 potential PS3, XBX 360, & Wii software pieces that could have been purchased. Two DS or PSP games purchases another, etc, etc. There are far too many variables & extraneous influences that indirectly & directly dictate market share. As substantially selling electronic gaming platforms, which can move millions of pieces of both hw or sw, they must be recognized.

its a good mark to hit but still has a long way to go

PAL is a way bigger territory than Japan for home consoles. Not so with handhelds anymore thanks to the DS. But check last gen console sales. Japan isn't even close to PAL.

Well done PS3 - the launch in Europe has pushed you over the 3mill barrier. Launched worldwide about 20weeks ago - makes about 150,000 / week (worldwide). Any guesses how long it will take to reach 4mill? At the current rate, makes it about mid-May? (currently selling about 55k-60k / week in US/Japan combined - so needs to sell about 100k/week in Europe to reach this).

I see it selling around 100k for a few more weeks in Europe..then it will drop off to 50 or 60 k per week...then stay steady at like 40k per week in mid May.

Well I am from Europe, and from one of the biggest anti-EU countries (in term of pure hate, not pop), and would say that never is a very strong word. For each paper written by the EU politicans we become closer to United States of Europe or whatever you will call it.

I'm sorry, but this is far from "official" & quite frankly sounds inflated imo. Wait for an official announcement.

I still believe that PS3/Wii numbers are to high. The companies need to tell more official sales numbers and not shipped.

No company actually knows "sales" figures - its not that they aren't releasing them, its simply that they don't know. There are thousands of retailers (and hundreds of thousands of stores) all over the world involved in the "sales" process - and they have various reasons for not wanting to disclose their sales figures. The only thing the console holders know are the shipment figures *to* these retailers. In a perfect world, these figures would do us nicely - but various retailers stockpile consoles for various reasons, and distort the actual sales figures. I still believe VGCharts to be the most accurate "guesstimate" of sales around.

Why is there such a large difference between this site and nexgenwars? How is the information collected differently between this site and theres?