Don't make me spin even further and bring up install bases and then fractions and then divide Pokemon's sales by 2 thus leaving God of War the winner ¬_¬

Plus you know the whole Pokemon vs GoW debate is about WESTERN sales, meanie

19,525

Oh BTW can I just say AMAZING 2nd Week FF13 Sales:

FF13 sold 276K in its 2nd week

FF12 sold 151K in its 2nd week

Ofcourse FF12 had the advantage of being launched in the holidays.

DS sales are just embarrassing. Good think Nintendo is launching a new handheld soon, they need to do something to revitalize interest.

Oh, and the same goes to all of you who replied to me!

Some heads at Sony do need to roll.

kowenicki, do you think there´s something kinda fishy about these shortages?...it couldn´t have been that hard to supply more systems for one of the biggest games..it´s almost like it´s intentional, but it wouldn´t make sense at the same time...hmmm.

read his later comment in this thread.

Good start to GoW III. It is a shame that one of the premier last gen franchises couldn't be used to drive HW sales forward for the Americas.

If Sony's PS3 factories are pumping out PS3's as fast as they can without compromising QA then there's not much Sony can do about supply issues unless it can source some additional manufacturing capacity. It can't be a simple thing to re-tool a factory from manufacturing one device across to manufacturing another.

I wonder if GoW III sales were affected by PS3 shortages. The PS3 supply problem could have had some measure of depressing effect on GoW III sales. Given some people who really were wanting to buy a PS3 to play GoW III may have been out of luck, so no point in buying the game until you have the system to play it on.

I expect most of the rest of the World will be up or steady this week but America's big decline will mean WW numbers will be down.

checking ;)

EDIT : I find this :
""Yes up until now - according to all of our research at least - PS3 has been hard to find as some locations but in reasonable supply overall - i.e I don't believe sales would have been significantly higher had there been 1m units available.
This week however, we're seeing some serious signs of shortages with as much as half of the stores we speak to being out of stock this week...""

well, yeah, he said that he "believes" ... so it is up to interpretation ;))

Wii doing well as usual, DS got a nice little boost from Pokemon. I think I have to get that game as I lost my old Pokemon Silver..

Wow PS3, I really expected it to do better on the heels of FFXIII and GOW3 release, at least near Wii numbers. Are shortages really that bad? I have seen the higher priced model at least available on various online stores, and the $300 model available on amazon, though for a higher price. But I think the shortages thing is a bit over exaggerated. I mean you would think Sony would be better prepared to handle extra shipments on the week of one of its biggest releases of the year.