Meh, what's the point. We may as well wait for NPD and Nintendo's EU numbers.

Luigi held firmly on to number one in the US after maintaining a strong second week, even mario would be impressed.

While the declines are normal for systems 7-8 years old (in fact they all have fantastic life for such old systems, even Wii) 30+% drops yoy for 3DS/Vita are very worrying. Those should be seeing YoY gains for at least two years after launch, or at worse flat sales. I'd wager tablets/smartphones are killing the mobile systems and they will only continue to drop barring price cuts (which will give a temporary reprieve),

WiiU's troubles are not necessarily indicative of a shrinking of the (traditional) console market but I do think that's likely to happen as well.

I have to get into a business meeting now but I will post the adjustments before.

Wii U doing rather well.
PS3 numbers continue to amaze me.

ADJUSTMENTS

PS360 GAP: 1,082,188

Yeah, gonna wait for NPD before I comment. After last month, I expect a lot of things (HW & SW) undertracked here.

Odd?

GAP: 1,082,188

But if you get the PS3 and 360 numbers separated:

PS3: 73,955,070 round to 74.0
360: 75,037,258 round to 75.0

It is like MS Excel... it round to up if over 0.5 and to down if lower 0.5... I think it is not odd just like the round works in maths.

Yeah, uh-huh.....

So if the Wii U is selling around 40-45K per week with a poor launch lineup and we compare that with the sales back in spring 2007 when the PS3 sales were tanking at 65-80K per week (also on a poor launch lineup), we can arrive at a conclusion - the PS3 sales were 50% higher than the Wii U.

If we project that number to potential yearly and lifetime sales, it suggests that the Wii U never will see yearly sales above 10 million or lifetime sales above 50 million (if lifetime is 6-7 years).

And this projection even demands that the Wii U pulls off an equal turnaround in sales that the PS3 managed to do, which I personally don't think it will.