it would be a mixture of things.

personally I would not dismiss PS3 owners getting a second one. I too am contemplating on getting a second PS3 haha. So I can see how some % of these sales are already PS3 owners.

In the same way you shouldn't look at the previous week to view the hardware boost... you also shouldn't  view the previous week to view the software boost. Both will give you skewed returns.

I would imagine a number of sales were existing owners upgrading.

Clearly some of the AA and Gundam sales link to slim purchases.

While no one older title took a big boost, many took small boosts, implying to me that rather than new owners flocking to a core title as would like happen with 360 (Halo or Gears) many new slim owners spread their first game choice over many titles - i.e. some went with Killzone, others inFamous, others MGS4, etc.

So, perhaps 30% or so was exiting PS3 owner IMHO with the other 70% spreading their sales across newest titles around like Batman or a wide variety of older titles.

The real test of SW will be whether the underlying weekly average takes a sustained increase - and I think we'll need to wait a few weeks to see that.

When the next wave of new releases hit should be informative as well, as really you'd expect to see a rise there.

I guess finally if HW drops way down then a large percentage was probably existing owners, if HW drops but shows a noticeable sustained boost then we know the slim is selling to new owners consistently - i.e. more than would have the case prior to slim release.

So, Rol's prediction came true. Only existing PS3 owner buy/upgrade to PS3 Slim.

Yes that 550k were all existing ps3 owners. (rolls eyes)

They thought they didn't have to buy games because the PS3 already does everything and now they are going to sue Sony.

Phoenix Wright will be their lawyer.

lol you act like that towards atma and then Brett comes in and states how this thread has a valid point, so honestly you should think before you diss someones thread.  Always gotta be hatin :P

OT: I've seen a lot of interest from people that either havent made the leap from PS2 to PS3 but not a lot of takers, the takers I have seen sometimes never bought a game with it even though it was their first PS3 so it's kinda odd.  Others I've seen buy the slim as their second PS3 to either replace a broken one or have one for their room and the living room.  So a number of factors but I'd say the percentages from my store seem to be around 50/50 new owners and people that already own a PS3. 

One theory new buyers are buying software while the a lot of the normal software buyers just picked up their second PS3 so they don't have the money for the software this week, which means the old buyers aren't buying the software but the new ones are and they're both cancelling each other out.

Is this +1 for Galaki or Rol? Rol duping someone else on another thread that he didn't even post in would be epic.

I guess it would be hard to statistically prove that those who play rockband, don't play games.

First of all you totally forgot to talk about new game releases for this week (GH5 and Gundam) that helped SW sales to reach that 1.44M.

After that, you affirmed that VGChartz SW tracking is not accurate. Yeah sure, not accurate for Sony, but accurate for Nintendo and Microsoft.

Finally, you're blaming me for defending a completely valid point.

Sure! /thread /sarcasm too