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FreeTalkLive said:
Wii was massive in America a couple weeks ago and was really low last week, no suprise. Look for this weeks numbers to be big. My Costco has not had Wiis in several weeks and just got some this week.

 yeah - the # of wiis sold simply depends on the shipment - not demand



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__XBrawlX__ said:
Torillian said:


I have something else cooking up, regarding the PS3 outselling the 360 every week.


 Gonna make the next "Ps3 has won X weeks" thread?  I wonder if we'll get through a week without one of those, y'know, without 360 beating PS3 so the thread couldn't be made.  



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The 1 mil were retailer Pre-orders

People on this site got confused.

Also, no one knows the download numbers.



azrm, the PS2 dropped to $200 within months of the GC's release and had a huge lead before the GC was even released. Totally different situation, even if you are correct that price isn't the only factor. That aside, the PS3 would be doing a lot better at $300, and we probably wouldn't be having this same conversation every week.

Also, despite what some think, games like MGS4 and FFXIII are going to give permanent boosts to the sales of the PS3. FFX ended up selling as many or more copies lifetime than there were PS2s at its launch iirc, and it helped to push an additional 500k to 1mil units in Japan alone before the start of the holiday season the year of its release, while there were only a handful of other games of the same calibur to back that up.

The PS3 is hurting now, obviously. No one is saying otehrwise. What is being said is that it came from the brink of death to be able to compete with the Wii off the back of a "demo," and that says some good things about the system's future once full version games of note start being released on it. I mean, really, if they can sell this many copies of Prologue in Europe, imagine what they will do with the full version of the game. It'll sell many millions, of copies, and tons of hardware to go with it, and it's not going to sell all of that on day one, week one, or even month one. The game will still eb selling a year late, and people looking to buy a new system will take its existance into consideration even if it's not the one game that pushes them over the edge and "forces" them to buy the system.



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How do people expect the Wii to outsell the PS2 lifetime if it can't even meet demand? It can't keep pace at 200k in the US without dropping to 75k the next week. It should be selling 200k weekly in the US, not every three weeks.



                                   

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Slums, I'd say it's due to the fact that it reached 10 million units in NA in 14 weeks less than the PS2 and is doing similarly in other places. Really, they can't meet demand but they are still pumping the machines out at a higher rate than the PS2 sold.



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SlumsofOhio said:
How do people expect the Wii to outsell the PS2 lifetime if it can't even meet demand? It can't keep pace at 200k in the US without dropping to 75k the next week. It should be selling 200k weekly in the US, not every three weeks.
You do know that even with the fluctuating weekly sales that it is still pacing ahead of the PS2?

 



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Torillian said:
__XBrawlX__ said:
Torillian said:


I have something else cooking up, regarding the PS3 outselling the 360 every week.


Gonna make the next "Ps3 has won X weeks" thread? I wonder if we'll get through a week without one of those, y'know, without 360 beating PS3 so the thread couldn't be made.


 http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=22461



 

 

 

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I just find this thread funny. PS3 is selling great this week and people are trying to spin it into a negative thing.

Hilarious.

The PS3 is selling very well this year, when will it just be excepted and not have everyone jump in with Wii remarks each time it does good? I personally just think it is because so many people expected some sort of epic fail on Sony's part and have been let down.

Everyone knows the Wii is going to most likely outsell it WW, but it is pretty close.

Doesn't bother me none, but still pretty amusing.



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