@Jarrod Depending on how you define the start of the year PS3 is either 36k up on the Wii or 28k down as of last week's numbers. Could someone clarify if Dec 28 2008-Jan 3 2009 is this year or last? I would assume last since it has 4 days in 2008 and 3 in 2009.

See, I thought they were dead even, but then The Source shamed me with numbers?  Are you going by Famitsu or MC ytd, I think I'm going to actually have to look this up (ugh)?

Great Wii and PS3 numbers.

Interesting to see the drop (IF there is one) there will be next week on Wii.

Oh sorry, I assumed we were talking about VGC numbers. I'm not sure what MC or Famitsu has it at.

There'll certainly be a drop, but I'm also interested to see the scale.  There is a Tales hardware bundle to help soften it though, it'll probably still beat out PS3.

Please?

VGC defines 2009 as including the week ended Jan 4. (And yes, it's Jan 4.  Japan's sales weeks end on Sunday making the week in question 3 days of 2008 and 4 days of 2009.)  I'm not sure how Famitsu and MC define the year.  Someone else had indicated to me that they include that week in 2008 but I've never looked it up.

Found MC... this is before NSMB week...

Wii ytd: 1,312,870

PS3 ytd: 1,284,029

...so close to VGC (29k vs 36k, favoring Wii).  I'm guessing Famitsu will be similar?  After this week it'll be up 70-80k then?

IIRC, the new year week always gets counted with the, well, new year.  

VGC does not follow that convention.  The rule seems to be whether the majority of the days of the week are in the new year or the old year.  2005, for example, ended on Jan 1, 2006.  This year looks like it will end on Jan 3 (the 2009 Japan page says Jan 4 but I think that's a typo because the 4th is a Monday) making 2009 a 53-week year (it has to happen sometimes).

EDIT: My previous example year managed to illustrate nothing.  Need more  sleep.