In 8 weeks Sony sell sell 25k in Australia? Not to mention its not outselling its competitors. More likely not happening. I mean it'll hit 200k possibly within Q1 but this guy obviously has little understanding of week to week sales in Australia.

I've hear that Sony has a big deal going on in Australia: if you buy a Bravia Television, you get a PS3 for free. 

1) Is this true?

2) This definitely could have a big effect on sales. 

Just a possible explanation of how and why this might be remotely possible.  

You guys have to understand the price the ps3 is currently at in australia.

Well, according to this site, the PS3 has yet to outsell the Wii or 360 in any single week. So unless VGChartz is WAY off, this article is very silly.

@whatever

Well they overtracked wii by 20k in australia according to GFK, and DS about 130k.

Leo-J, quit making things up.

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=14579

@fishy joe

huh?

 http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=14579

Also, this article says that the PS3 sold 175k by the end of the holiday season. VGC's number for Dec 30 is 173,232. Almost dead on.

I'm going to search for the orignal source, but from what you stated kitler I think whoever wrote it is a dumbass... The facts seem to be;

Wii reached 200k in November.
PS3 reached 175k at the end of the year.

perhaps they just thought "screw the holiday sales for Wii, surely it sold nothing at all since November" Edit: ok all I can find without going into it too much is this: www.ps3center.net/story-1567-ps3-Set-To-Overtake-Wii-and-Xbox-360-in-Australia.html which I assume is where Kitler got it from as it has the same wording. The numbers and facts posted agree perfectly with VGC, yet the writer somehow dismisses the date difference between the numbers [that being 2 months of holiday sales included for PS3 but not Wii] Perhaps he is referring to the difference in launch dates [though nothing if the sort is mentioned] in that Wii made it to 200k in 11 months wheras PS3, if he is correct that PS3 gets to 200k in Feb then that would also be 11 months? still not making sense because both took the same time to reach 200k [though PS3 had launch hype+Christmas as help, wheras Wii had a Christmas launch]