People talking about "sustaining" these sales haven't thought about their software and bundle lineup. We have U2 and PES in October, GT5 in early December, FF13 in mid December[Japan], GoW3 in March, and FF13 in spring. Plus we have Agent confirmed for '10 release, ModNation Racers, and a nice looking holiday lineup for next year. That French website confirmed 7 bundles this holiday season, all of which looked very appealing. I don't see the X360 outselling the PS3 until '11, besides possibly Halo weeks.

And out of all those games, only FF 13 (in Japan) and GT 5 are system movers. Sure there are tons of great games, but there effects will be minimal.

Back on topic. I think the 400-500% increase can be rather misleading.

The slim was leaked months ago, and sales took a huge hit dropping to (pretty much) there lowest ever. shortages occurred for several weeks as the old PS3 stock was clearing out.

I'd say there was probably 200-250k pent up demand worldwide looking at how low PS3 sales got before the slim. The $100 price cut and slim release obviously had a huge boost as well coupled with an improved advertising campaign.

I think it would be best to compare the weekly average in October to see how it will perform in the holidays.

GT5 will need to be released...
If god of war was released this year it would also have contributed.

Possible but highly unlikely.

GoW3 will be a system seller. Anyways, I know they aren't all system sellers, but if you consider the normal bump for a large exclusive game, combined with how much the PS3 will be selling on a normal week, the numbers will be high. Thus, they will be sustaining the high sales.

and i remember how everybody bitched about comments from some people like me that the PS3 MAYBE will overtake the xbox360 sales THIS year...and now everybody is blown away and cant believe it and even think that it could be possible!

PS3 beat XBox360 this year need 3 steps...Price Cut (Done) + FF XIII Japan Release 2009 (17.12.09 - Done) + GT5 WW Release 2009 (questionable - still possible)

And till December u still got some great titles for PS3 that will keep the sales up like Uncharted 2,Ratchet & Clank,GoW Collection (US Sales),Ninja Gaiden 2 and Tekken 6 (will gave PS3 much more boost than the Xbox))

I don't think anyone expected the Slim to do this well. 13 million units for fiscal year should be a breeze, we still have GT5/FF13 before then.

Just wait til the holidays. 500k is a great start but millions more will sell for the holidays. Sony is on a roll and they could close the gap with the 360 by 3m before this year ends I hope.

That would be pretty impressive if SCE hit their 13m projection. In retrospect, it was a no-brainer that SCE had reduced production costs and a significant price drop on the books for them to even throw out such a high number.

First week sales may be a bit too early to confirm it, but it's looking like they may not be that far off, even if they do miss their target. The impact of a revised $299 PS3 was counted out by way too many people.

GoW is a small-scaled system seller, it won't give an amazing boost, but a big boost nontheless.

I really want a slim but fucking EB games would only give me $180 trade in value for my 60 gigger.

Congratz goes out to Sony/PS3, these sales are impressive.