I just think you need to keep a relative perspective of how things are now and it was then.

Let's deal with the top two. The Wii was a freak and what that console did was a one off. The DS (and PSP) hadn't the competition then as it does now from the mobile market.

That leaves the PS3 and X360 which were then reasonably priced and had plenty of games after being at least two years on the market.

Two years from now the PS4 and X1 can possibly be putting up roughly the same numbers as their predecessors did in 2009 with price cuts and bigger libraries.

They are all good points and ones I hear any time the Vita is discussed amongst my gaming friends who don't have one.

btw where is the Vita $99 at?

According to the interwebs, Best Buy.

Fucking awful. The seventh generation of consoles will be the last unless sales of everything go up by a huge degree.

January 27th 2007 is the comparable timeframe

handhelds are doing terrible though I'm not sure if the overlap for them is the same as the home consoles considering the platform totals totals.

ps4 to the wii (sytems selling the most of the 2 without a year head start) is a large drop but ps4 is missing Japan so it's not as terrible and the ps4 total is still higher than the wii in the same time frame.

wii u vs 360 (systems with the year head start) wii u is doing way less than the 360 it's less than half for the week and several million behind the total.

xbox one vs ps3 (system selling the less of the 2 without the head start) a difference of what 1,500? and it's also what double the total sales? yes ps3 didnt yet have europe but xbox one is missing many markets.

wow, NPD should be interesting this month.

PS4 is killing it! While others are spending 100 mill on run down ip's, bribing youtube viewers, purposely leaking info to generate interest and mocking the competition with hitler videos, Sony's response is....put the system on the shelves and the results speak for itself..

Those US vita numbers are really more than concerning me. What on earth could save it there ?

Well that was apparently a 1 day managers discretion sale at some Best Buys.

Xbox One Needs to release a Kinect game to show it's worth the extra $100. However Titanfall should pump up numbers.

3ds up a lot in US and Europe YoY and is down merely 5k globally YoY. I can see the 3ds doing similar WW numbers as last year due to strong sales in US and Europe despite the steep decline in Japan.