Crunch the numbers yourself ...

Sony claimed 27,000 PS3 systems were sold in the first 10 days of the PS3's launch; it has been 14 weeks since the PS3's launch and now they're claiming a total of 50,000 units. This means that they have averaged 3,571.4 systems per week including the launch and 1,289.5 systems per week not including the launch.

Nintendo claimed 32,000 systems in their launch week were sold and it has been 29 weeks and 2 days since their launch; they have claimed that they have sold an additional 68,000 systems since then. This works out to being 3,414.6 systems per week including the launch and 2,404.0 systems per week not including the launch.

The PS3 should have a massive advantage in the non-launch numbers because (typically) a system has much higher average weekly sales for a while after launch than they have 6 months in; and yet its average weekly sales (outside of launch) are noticeably lower than the Wii. The likely hood that the PS3 is outselling the Wii on a weekly basis is pretty small, and it should be obvious why the PS3 will not break 100,000 units faster than the Wii.

Well, if IOI's numbers are correct, and they certainly seem to be, I can only assume Sony is averaging out their sales out over a weekly basis, and not using an actual week by week breakdown.

What? Don't bring facts and logic into the discussion. You should just accept everything Sony says and not analyze it at all. 

Same here. I was about to say, that every week PS fanboys opening topics and demanding to change the sales on the frontpage for the PS3. But luckily you did that, as member of VGChartz ;) I was personally so honest enough to open a topic and to ask how come the sale figures from Nintendo for the WII we're much lower in a resent news topic, then on here AND on other websites, but people explained to me they mentioned the fiscal year numbers *dumb*.

From what I can see comparing to other sites as well, and especially sales given by a Media Create and Famitsu for Japan, the PS3 as well the WII and DS sales, are about the same.

Don't you think if Sony was making up GfK figures that the GfK people would bring this up? Think about it...

This is a funny thread.

Its very simple and shown before. PS3 launched on March 31 in Australia. That means it has been out for about 12 weeks. So for the first 11 weeks it outsold both the Wii and 360 in weekly sales. Now on the 12 week Wii has outsold the PS3 just as it has in nearly every other location in the world. Except maybe Uganda. The unlike Europe that received 1m units all at once. Australia received 'normal' shipments and it took a few weeks for the initial demand to be saturated. Now, it will continue to sell at PS3 levels which are far below Wii.

All the fanboys need to quit the overzealous attempts at either glorifying this pitty 50k or calling it a bunch of lies and fodder. It's just Sony PR, just like Nintendo's from a week ago when they showed the fastest ever to hit the 100k point in Australia.

What will be impressive is if the PS3 can get to the 100k level before Wii did.

I don't understand why fishquall says the word "newbie" so much.

I told him I don't care...he can have 1000 posts under his belt, that doesn't mean I'm not going to call him out on his fanboyism.

Considering that this thread has gone off a hill, why hasn't it been locked yet?
Sony PR vs. VGC (No link to Gfk). We get it.

Spoken like a true man

Just to reiterate, so no one forgets: Sony, Nintendo and VGC are reporting similar total sales.

Nintendo said last week they've sold 100K. Sony said this week they've sold 50K. VGC has 103K and 47K. Those are very accurate numbers. Ioi should get a pat on the back.

What the hell do people expect ioi to change? He ended up with the right numbers. He has the same numbers as Sony and Nintendo within a few thousand. Does anyone really think ioi happened to get the right LTD totals through a series of grossly inaccurate weekly numbers which somehow evened out?