I ran a stat I wanted to see, posting in case others care to see it.

PS3 sales were huge multipliers in Europe and Japan. Not near as good of multiplier in North America. But, still good news overall...

The holiday will be interesting. I still expect Sony to beat 360 this holiday season. Given everything they have done they have to beat 360 this holiday season. If 360 mounts a comeback for the holidays the PS3 is doomed. But I doubt it will happen.

I wonder how long this will stay a sales discussion haha.

Well a pretty big increase for PS3 which was expected. Although I had never thought on this level. 550,000 is definitely a surprised to me. I was expecting in the 300k-400k range and it obviously hit a little higher than that. Biggest surprised coming E/O which has seen such a downfall in PS3 sales. Good to see it get a big boost. America's boost though is one that kinda worries me. Still having problems competing in America as compared to the boosts in Japan and Europe it's hard to see that as something good in the long run.

Nice boost for 360 as well with it's first full week of $300 Elite and $250 Pro 360. I don't expect this to keep a maintained boost though. Just not enough happened. It'll fall slower than PS3 but it didn't go up to far to begin with. DS holds strong showing how unaffected it is by everything. PSP though needs some help. Even after the Dissidia bundle it needs some work. Luckily at the end of the month it will get the PSP Go and all will hopefully be well. Now it's just that darn Wii that drags down the party. Although considering all that happened with the competition and no big exclusive to come out to combat it, 180,000 isn't that bad considering. But you have to wonder if Ninty is going to have an ace up their sleeves to drive themselves into the holiday season with a boom.

Now what is always concerning people's mind is how big the drop is going to be next week. If it had been 300k-400k as I would have thought, the drop might have been less. But it is quite obvious (especially from Japan) that there were a lot of people waiting for this and bought it on the first week. Meaning it has an unusually large entrance. That doesn't bode well for the drop next week. Although second we are still going to have those that had been waiting pick it up but it's hard to think it'll have a week over 350,000 next week. My very best guess at this is somewhere between 250k-350k for PS3 worldwide next week. Which is great. That's at least 800k-900k in 2 weeks.

Then we'll have to start seeing where it levels off to. I have no estimations for that currently though.

Very good for PlayStation 3 Slim.
Best console ^.^ i have now ps3 games (Metal Gear Solid 4, Naruto) and Blu Ray's (300, BATMAN, niceee). Awesome.

CGI-Quality said: Carl2291 said: Awesome numbers, its like the old days again Now the question is, can PS3 keep it up and be above Wii next week? Looks achievable IMO. I think when all is settled PS3 will do anywhere from 150-180,000 a week. What do you think?

Unlikely, it would nead to steal almost ALL of the 360's sales to do that. 

And I'm 93% positive that it will outsell the Wii next week too.

Great sales for PS3, impressed the 360 hasn't lost many sales to it's HD competitor. I think the PS3 sales need to be at least 20% higher than the 360 weekly CGI for the cut and revision to be successful. This price cut for Sony will have to last a long time given it's size, similar to the 2007 cut. Looks like PS3 will beat 360 at xmas this year though so well done to Sony.

Wow @ sensational PS3 sales in Japan and especially in PAL/Others (110.000 more systems sold than in NA).

Congrats, Sony.

CGI-Quality said: Carl2291 said: Awesome numbers, its like the old days again Now the question is, can PS3 keep it up and be above Wii next week? Looks achievable IMO. I think when all is settled PS3 will do anywhere from 150-180,000 a week. What do you think?

Should be achievable, there is no reason for it NOT to be.

There are some awesome games coming out, and a rumored Fifa 10 bundle in Europe. Should keep the numbers big for a while, possibly 200k+ for a couple of weeks.

I think it will settle at ~180k a week until Christmas, then the numbers will be huge.

how reliable is wikipedia? It shows that the sony has sold 24.06 mil since august, this is excluding the the 550,000 surge because it was showing that number since the beginning of august.

took a look at the charts, slim release had larger sales than any week last holiday and all but 1 week in the previous holiday. just wow.