Machina# Online gaming have been offline for 3weeks and it started working this week again. A game like Brink is a online game most so this is nothing weird at all as people who have both consoles bought the 360 version.

Hmmm in terms of Brink remember PSN was down during the launch and Brink is a MULTIPLAYER shooter so that influenced my decision not to purchase it right away as well (and I am assuming that it influenced other's decisions).

PS3 again.

A console can't be up YoY it's entire life you know? this time last year PS3 was still riding high on a price cut, so it's figures right now are fine, pretty healthy. 360 again, EMEAA isn't its strongest region, and only partially down yoy.

Good lord, Wii could be sub-90k this week.

It likely will be

101k last week

Down 9k in EMEAA
Down 6/7k in Japan

Likely down a lot in Americas too. I bet around 70-80k

I know a console can't be up YoY it's entire life, but a price-cut is a way to make more money and to boost sales, and you don't want to leave it like Nintendo did, too late.

And the PS3 price-cut was some time ago, like around the same time Move and Kinect were launched last year I think. So...surely they should be boosting sales as well? And the 360 has Kinect, a load of games and a new model over last year and it's still down. Hardly healthy no matter which way you spin it.

The only real thing which can re-ignite consumer interest right now is a price cut.

There's a slight irony that the announcement of the price cut that Nintendo hope will reinvigorate Wii sales has itself lead to what's looking like the lowest sales week ever by a rather considerable margin as people seemingly wait for the cut.

wii is doomed

You are off by a year.