Wow I forgot about DQ:Swords...That's it now I firmly think Wii will get there first.

According to Media Create, the PS3 needs another 70K to reach one million, and sold only 9.5K this week. The Wii needs 265K to reach three million, and sold 65.5K last week. So the Wii needs 4 weeks and the PS3 about 7, assuming using this weeks sales continue.


DQ: Swords is released on July 12, four weeks from now, so it's release essentially doesn't matter. I expect the Wii to pass three million in four weeks.


I think the PS3 will pass one million in seven weeks. I don't think FolkSoul will make that big an impact and any impact it does have will be offset by PS3 weekly sales droping down below 9K again after FolkSoul's release. Everybody's Golf 5 is released seven weeks from now, so that game will make sure the PS3 gets over the one million mark.


So Wii wins by three weeks.

Someone suggested this a few weeks ago when they were around 2.5M and 900k. Then I laughed, but now it looks likely it'll be the same week. Certainly not more than 2 weeks between them.

ps3 in three weeks, wii in four. Folksoul and NGS will be enough to make it cross the 1M mark just before wii can get to 3M.

I was who suggested.... But nobody was interested at the time.

7.000 copies of Folksouls has been sold on 1 day, not really a system seller if you tell me. NGS sold at the first day about 30.000, if I'm not mistaken, and didn't push the PS3 any much further then comparing to the last week hardware sales.

if the wii reaches 3 mil befour the Ps3 reaches 1 mil then that would be emarrasing for sony

Its going to be pretty embrassing for Sony then Joey. I figured the PS3 would reach a million first but NGS didn't do much for PS3 sales and honestly that didn't surprise me. I never understood why people thought NGS would have a big effect on PS3 sales. What has surprised me is Folk Soul. According to the first day sales numbers that have leaked out, it seems to have bombed in Japan. I figured Folk Soul would give the PS3 a significant boost for the next few weeks but that seems not to be the case.

A lot of people keep saying that Nintendo is holding back on Wii supplies for specific game launches, but I really don't think that's the case. It doesn't make much sense to delay the revenue the sales would generate or pay the storage costs to do so. (Though I'd imagine that Nintendo does have some fixed storage facilities that they'd be paying for if they were empty or full.)

Many have speculated that Nintendo has increased output, but the sales numbers don't support that. Maybe we'll get more answers from Nintendo's next shareholder's meeting on 6/28.

So back to topic, Wii reaches 3M in 4 weeks. The PS3 reaches 1M in 4 weeks or 36 weeks after its launch. (A milestone the Wii reached in 6.)

ps3 - 3 weeks with 10k per week or 4 weeks with 8k per week.
wii - 3 weeks with 80k per week or 4 weeks with 70k per week.

on 17 june:
Wii - 29 72,082 (+8%) 2,774,993
PS3 - 32 10,987 (+12%) 965,278

in june 24:
wii + 70k - 2,845
ps3 + 11k - 976

June 30 Dragon Quest Swords
on july 1:
wii - 100-155k ? - 2,950k-3,000k
ps3 - 12k - 988k

july 8:
wii - 100k - +3,000k
ps3 - 12k - 1,000k