My range was 50k-150k so I'm glad I at least picked that right. But was always hard to tell because could never gear shipments. Good first week. However, with Japan lately I really want to be looking pass the first week to see how it does in its 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. Because a lot of things recently have come out strong and then just completely gone right back to normal.

Right now I'm seeing next week PS3 will be int he 75k-100k range. That would actually be really good if it only dropped to half of what it was with these sales. But a lot of things with the PS3 slim are going to be explosive rather than continuous. Unlike the 360 pricedrop a year ago where it started off slow and picked up steam during the holidays. I have expected the PS3 to be the exact opposite. Have that certain group waiting to pick it up first few days and then fade off while new and casual gamers slowly pick it up.

But considering this is Japan it could definitely surprise me. I think what will be good for the PS3 is if it slows down and gets to a steady selling pace of 20k-40k. But we'll see in the coming weeks. Only problem for Sony and the PS3 right now is the lack of big software to justify the system. FF13 is a big one but have to wait til December for that. Other than that (unless GT5 does come out) it's going to be hard to justify a lot of gamers into buying the system this early.

On the other hand 360 and Wii still have to step it up. Even though Wii may have the software going down the line it still has to be competitive with the PS3 in other areas. All I can say is it will be an interesting holiday season.

Insanity will ensure!

Also a good comparison is DSi that came out back in November of 2008. On it's opening week in Japan it sold 190,000. Next week dropped down to 110,000, then 90,000, and then back up to 114,000. Of course this is the DS so give or take some but obviously it was able to hold up well. Of course it did have the holiday season to rely on and a big release (Kirby Superstar Ultra).

It's hard to think we'll see a similar case considering PS3 is releasing in September, nothing on the size of Kirby, and no consistent software. But it's interesting to note it has the same explosiveness of the first week. Actually percentage wise it's going to be larger considering PS3 went from nothing essentially to 150,000. But we probably won't see the same magnitude of legs considering this is DS we are talking about. 150,000 to 80,000, to 50,000, to 35,000. Then of course we'd be looking at how it goes from there and where it stays at.

The point is in this time it's going to make up a fair amount of ground. In 4 weeks that's over 300,000 units pushed while Wii might do 80,000 to 100,000 in the same time frame. Nintendo need not be too worried but it needs something to give it some significant boosts as well. I'm not sure if Wii Fit Plus and New Super Mario Bros can do that. They are more there to make the holiday season flow.

i expected this

Very good for Ps3 Slim and Metal Gear Solid 4, the best game in the historie.

niceee

japan gone crazy for slim they love slim things and also they love play station brand and some of them love low price

Gundam

Tekken 6

Tales of Vesperia

3D Dot Heroes

Bayonetta

Not exactly monster titles, but it's not like they have nothing coming out either.