To very different games, with very different sales track records, and very different sales trends should (probably) not be directly compared ... You typically want to control as many variables as possible ...

Lol. Damn you got banned for that comment. Oh well see you back soon. The mods are tough here. On any other gaming site forum  you would of got away with that statement. lol.

Non-sequitur.

Yes, because it's a known fact that the Japan gamer population is the same as the US one so it makes sense to compare sales of games btw Japan and US right ?

Stop digging your hole...

400k LTD would make it the third best selling game on PS3 in Japan this gen, 400k first week would easilly make it bestselling game on PS3 this gen so far..

If it was feasible it would put a nice dent on the family focus that Nintendo has been advertising heavilly for the Wii :P

Grand Ma, come see! I'm getting a lap dance !

The weird thing about the PS360 user base is that it’s so refined, like I think 70% of the people who own PS3’s own it for roughly the same reasons and are excited about the same things.

I’d go as far as to say the PS3 user base for it’s life time unless some massive change happens will be about 15~20% of the PS3 user base in incumbents while having an added 20% somewhere along the way – so should the PS2 userbase be 100 mil (which it’s not) then the PS3 life time user base could cap out at 40 million.

That’s just with the demographic as a determining factor, other things come into play.

If they made the PS3 free I’m sure it would outsell the Wii.

Even then, MK will have a hell of a time catching GTA IV. What is it, 4.5m behind now? If it's not, it will be there soon because it won't start outselling GTA for a month or so.

Personally, I don't think MK will ever pass GTA. GTA should keep selling for quite some time and the DLC later this year should give it another pretty substantial boost. 

Meanwhile, Grand Theft Auto IV serves another handy purpose besides acting as a parental punching bag: language tutor. No joke! The player controls an Eastern European, after all. At times, (anti)hero Niko Bellic mumbles in Russian (well, I think it's Russian) under his breath, and a rough translation pops up on screen.

Toggle on the subtitles, and you get the added bonus of being able to decipher what the heck L'il Jacob is saying in Jamaican (kinda). So go on, try to pick up some key phrases and use them on a nice old Russian or Jamaican lady who sits next to you on the bus. I'm sure you'll be a hit.

Kopetsch is quick to add, though, that "the most important thing for a nonnative speaker is to differentiate between slang and elaborated speech. I don't want to greet an American colleague of mine by saying 'What's up, motherf***?'" Amen to that.

How about, which ever game sells more, they're BOTH multimillion selling games (MK Wii has 3.7 ww already), so BOTH games are going to PRINT MONEY.

That's the only real outcome of this pointless argument. 

I can live with that. When it comes down to it, I don't care which game sells more. They're both a lot of fun for very different reasons.