PS3 sold 1.25m in Japan from August 29 2009 to January 2 2010 - hard to see it getting particularly close to that level in 2011, with no Slim, Final Fantasy being a sequel and not the first entry, and a lesser price drop and lower baseline level of sales likely heading into late November

It was pretty spot on this week, surprisingly.

Preview:

"1) Rhythm Heaven (Wii) - 52,000"

" Its not out of the question that PS3 sales will only be around 25,000-30,000 units this week, 25-40% above its pre-Obon sales, especially since many will simply wait until Monster Hunter releases next week. "

"After selling around 100,000 units next week, 3DS should begin to decline much more slowly, and settle at anywhere between 40,000 - 80,000 units per week until major titles and / or late November arrive at which point 3DS sales will sky-rocket again."

-Unless he meant the week after August 21st

Even broken clock is correct once per day :D

Next week should be up a little bit for PS3 but those of you expecting a huge bump from MHP3 HD are going to be dissapointed its only got about 90,000 preorders and week one: final preorders is typically a 3:2 or 5:3 ratio for this type of game. The game had over 1m preorders on PSP and over 300k preorders on Wii - so the lift will be an order of magnitude smaller than the 70k Wii lift and 200k PSP lift.

I also agree with the frontloaded argument in Japan for price cuts - PS3 probably would have done 25k for the 8/27 week in Japan without Monster Hunter. With Monster Hunter, you're looking at 35k - 45k realistically, and then a drop off to fairly 'normal' PS3 numbers prior to Xillia in September.

PS3 sold 1.25m in Japan from August 29 2009 to January 2 2010 - hard to see it getting particularly close to that level in 2011, with no Slim, Final Fantasy being a sequel and not the first entry, and a lesser price drop and lower baseline level of sales likely heading into late November