This isnt has good as people might think. A new model and a price cut and not even double sales. yes 178% this week but i think it will settle down to 120% to 140% thereafter. just imagine if theyd just realised a BC 40gb model.

It would be nice if we got numbers. Increasing, decreasing, beating another console is all great anecdotally, but how about actual sales numbers? If, in fact, it's 178% of sales of previous week of, say, 6700 units per vg chartz, you are looking at 11,926 based on a 1.78 multiplier or 18,600 units or so if you look at it as a Doubling plus 78%. People use "increase by X percent" incorrectly quite often so I wouldn't put too much into it until we have an actual number to work with. Regardless, even if it is the bigger number, that's not enough to put a dent in the 360's overall lead as the PS3 needs to start selling half a million or so MORE consoles than the 360 on a worldwide basis to have any hope of catching the 360 by early 2009...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6181094.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;2

"The PS3 60GB is proving very popular, even with the introduction last week of the 40GB model. 89 percent of purchasers opted for some form of 60GB model,

The 40GB model only accounted for 10% of the sales. It seems people are just grabbing the 60GB-with some form of BC, before the 40GB model becomes the standard.

@ Azzer, you got it wrong buddy. When you say that sales have jumped by 100%, that means that sales have doubled, in this case it's 178% which is almost thrice of the original sales amount. Ya dig?

@wojtas

Yeah ur right. I worded it wrong but you get what I mean. :P

what I ment to say was an increase of 78% then returning to and increase of 20 to 40%

wow, even with the new SKU it didn't beat the Wii/DS ? :s

Europe belongs to Nintendo =)

Yeah, i suppose Nintendo still has the highest chances of being King this holiday season.

 But of course, consumers don't care about BC anymore - they just want the core Playstation experience.

 ...allowing SCEE to set their own models and pricing was not a good idea, in retrospect.

And to think during all this Nintendo still has the price cut card up its sleaves.

was there ever something to worry?