I'm assuming the increase of PS4 sales has everything to do with Spider-Man. Runaway success and word of mouth. Good reviews too. But it's also a little crazy that it this week was. Shadow of the Tomb Raider week and Microsoft has Marketing Rights to it.

And let's not forget the ps4 will keep stretching the lead with big games like bo4 and rdr2 coming out. At least until Nintendo finally get their big games out. First one mid November i think? 

Not really, using the numbers from the YoY comparison thread shows this.

PS4

As of week 13 down ~4% YoY

As of week 26 down ~11% YoY

As of week 38 down ~16% YoY

NSW

As of week 13 up ~24% YoY

As of week 26 up ~23% YoY

As of week 38 up ~23 YoY

As the year has gone on PS4 sales have been trending downward from last year while NSW has held very stable YoY gains. Assuming this trend continues than PS4 could very well be down ~20% by the end of the year putting it at ~16.2m and if NSW remains up 23-24% it's been all year than it will end around ~16.2m as well.

Overall PS4 and NSW sales should be very close at the end of the year, I would say within 1 million of each other.

Wow at the Spiderman hw boots, 3 weeks running

Indeed, but they're related, unless there is an extra +2 millions gap between shipped and sold, which usually is less (around 1/1.5 million. That's why I said that if Nintendo sells 18 millions by the end of march, they would fall short from the 20 millions Nintendo expect to -my bad- ship.

Honestly Im even surprised that Xbox does 1/3 or 1/4th of the PS4 sales in europe.
Maybe its just my small circle, but xbox isnt really something people I know own.

Its not quite this bad in europe..... But like on the street if you asked random people, Im sure you would get this responce from some of them.

Japan = 127m
Europe = 742m
USA = 326m

If there was like 6 times as many japanese consumers as there are now.... they would be leading the sales in terms of hardware every week.

That population includes Russia (140m) and Turkey (80m) and I don't believe those nations are included in the 'Europe' table seen here, though I could be wrong.

The European Union has around 500m population which is typically what people are referring to by Europe.

StarDoor said: Because people were talking about it, this is what this week would look like if Japan had the population of Europe: Platform N. America Europe Japan Global 56,909 55,727 218,029 356,502 63,430 104,194 94,525 303,054 43,308 29,859 636 84,787 19,892 16,409 41,016 80,253 26 149 15,738 16,013

Thank you for posting this.  This shows that per capita, there are a lot more gamers in Japan than the rest of the world.  This is actually further confirmation about everything else I've heard about Japan, which is just that gaming is much more a part of their culture than it is elsewhere.  They also tend to have a disproportionate number of game developers just because gaming is part of the Japanese mindset.

StarDoor said: Because people were talking about it, this is what this week would look like if Japan had the population of Europe: Platform N. America Europe Japan Global 56,909 55,727 218,029 356,502 63,430 104,194 94,525 303,054 43,308 29,859 636 84,787 19,892 16,409 41,016 80,253 26 149 15,738 16,013

Oh, this is so beautiful. 3DS competes with XBox, PS4 and Switch get great boosts and Vita has life in it. Only MS is unhappy. Oh well, at least in that graph Xbox in Japan sells more than Vita outside of Japan.