Control scheme will do very little to lure the "casuals" if the games are largely the same. Other than Sports Champions and Eye Pet, what games can you see grandma or 5 year old Timmy playing on the PS3? Until Sony can get these gamers, they will not achieve Wii level success.

Sony's biggest mistake is that they seem to think motion controls are the root of the Wii's success, when it's really the games. The PS3 may play Blu Rays, or even fix you breakfast, but if it lacks games that the average consumer would want to play, a motion wand is going to do little to change that.

Its not, it is only day 1 for a hardware product.

Remember this isn't a software product

Rome wasn't built in 1 day!

The data is through Sep 18th.... seems like 2 days to me.

Besides, it is still week 1 sales, as a week is defined from Sunday to Saturday (in NA), people just need to expect a (for typical software curves) a smaller drop in week 2 than a game that started selling on Tuesday rather than Friday. Obviously since this is a peripheral it won't follow typical software sales curves.

Anyways, meh sales. Just looking at NA, if the sales aren't sustained at the 50k/week sales or increase in NA it'll probably be a flop. 50k over 14 weeks is only 700k "systems" in NA which is really crappy if you are going to try selling a game compared to the platforms that are already available. To compare it to the closest thing you can compare it to, the WM sold at least 5.2m units in NA to individual owners within 2009 and it still doesn't have decent support within Wii games.

But...not everyone even has it in stock yet...which some don't seem to be noticing...

leo, you've been sayin' that since 2006 and where are we now?

This could be taken one of two ways.

On their own, the sales are clearly disappointing.  This was meant to be a virtual relaunch of the console, a genuine Wii competitor.  Certainly, Microsoft are treating their motion offering as such. 

On the other hand, the truly stellar Wii sales have always occured around Christmas time, and you'd think that is the period in which most of the Move's target audience would do their shopping.

I think it would be best if we withheld judgement for a few months.

As far as software support goes, noone that wasn't on board is going to hop on board after this week's sales, but hopefully not many would jump ship either, given what I said about holiday sales.

Not really that high and not really that low. Whats important now is whether they are sustained.

@ starcraft

Sony have said that they expect Move to be a slow burner, and be carried by word of mouth, rather than start out with sky high sales.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-08-26-sonys-ray-maguire-interview?page=3

"Am I expecting a massive day one? Not particularly. We didn't with EyeToy, either. It went on to be massively successful. As people saw the value when they tried it they told their friends. Their friends bought it. They told their friends. Word of mouth grew the marketplace. That's what I expect from Move as well."

Umm...hype?! Weak advertising. Weak launch software...and you're mentioning hype? Honestly, I don't know what to say.

OT: Not impressive and not disappointing. Can it sustain such sales? That is the question, and it can once some bigger titles/more ambitious projects come into play.

impressive first week sales, id also expect it to have legs, i many of my friends are going to buy it in 2011, when socom/infamous 2/and kz3 get move support.