This was an interesting week.

Ok, take this period, long after Wii fit is out and Brawl and Kart, its still selling around 1.8 million a week, you say it was abnormal back then, its still maintaining a higher software level.

Also as I pointed out the tie ratio is more due to the way its hardware sales often bounce up disproportionately to its software sales, but that doesn't change that it continues to move a ton of software during those periods.

I stopped having a sensible arguement with you when you gave me the MK Wii launch week as your arguement.

And you are basicly saying PS3 hasn't got any big system selling games coming out...

Uncharted 2, Gran Turismo 5, Final Fantasy 13, Modern Warfare 2, God of War 3... all say hello to you.

Now please, stop with the damage control and let some PS3 fans actually have a good moment involving sales.

I'm sticking by my predictions, since the Wii continues to outtrack the PS2 and DS in sales and has yet to see its price change from launch.

@ Avinash

Protip: Wii wont surpass 300 million sales +

None of those games with maybe the small possiblity of Gran Turismo will breach 10 million on the PS2, most wont even pass 5 million, which kind of continues my point about software strength.

This isn't damage control, this is merely pointing out some facts, I'm not stopping you from having your fun, I'm just cautioning you against reading too much into one week.

If my predictions don't come true i'll post a thread where I admit I was wrong, like I've done before, and i'll even put it in my sig permanently, I'm big enough to admit when i'm wrong, but I still think i'll be right

And again, you should learn to be way more precise if you want to logically support your claims, because what you're saying now is not the justification for what you said before, ie that holiday sales are the reason of the lower tie ratio.

It's obvious that the software tie ratio will drop after a period of sustained sales such as holidays. A lot of new Wiis every week, but certainly not all of their owners also buy 5+ games, that would be the only way to keep the tie ratio constant. But in the following months this bump in hardware sales should become a -smoothed- bump in software sales as the new owners buy games, up to the point where it all averages out into the historical tie ratio, unless you suppose that those holiday buyers are for some reason different and won't buy the same amount of games as other buyers.

Thus the fact that the tie ratio drops right after the holidays - obvious - doesn't support your justification for the lower tie ratio overall of the Wii.

And you can point out all the isolated weeks you want, but each Wii does not sell significantly more software than each PS3 or 360, it sells slightly less. It's factual and written in the totals and in the tie ratio.

Actually this fact that the Wii sells (very) relatively less software combined with the number of high-tie-ratio titles in its library would be an indicator of them being must-have titles, maybe of the kind that can drive hardware sales. But that's not what you said.

So? They will still move systems. Which was your original point. You started talking about 10m+ and 20m+ sellers part way through the conversation.

At the second bit. How about a bet?

PS3 > Wii next weeks numbers WW? Take it or leave it?

Not taking the bet then?