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Forums - Sales Discussion - Worldwide Numbers In!!! Week of dec 12, 2009!!!!!

PS3 is more-or-less in line with 360's last year numbers, despite being ~$100 ( and £120) more expensive

When PS3 hit's $200, there will be some pretty big numbers!

Anyway, PS3 1 Million next weeks numbers - Will it happen?



                            

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nordlead said:
leatherhat said:
I'm going to repost what I said in the article comments:



Who the hell is buying this thing? All my friends, who all game to various extents haven't touched one since brawl came out. No one in my whole extended family, friends of friends, or even minor acquaintances don't but it. So who is? I know we talk about casuals and how wii sells to grandmas and children, but I always figured it was more as much a joke as it was true. But is there really this vast audience of Grandmas and soccer moms eating this up? How does a console with such little rapport with the gaming audience sell so well?

Before anyone asks, I'm not mad, the wiis hardware success means little to me. I just can't wrap my head around it.

I do I'm sorry all your friends haven't been interested in any of the great games since brawl, but that is probably because they refuse to even be remotely interested not because there are no good games.

Now answer this question. Who the hell buys a X360 or PS3. I know 0 people personally (other than myself) who have either.

There's been a few great titles since Brawl, they've missed out a on a few good Wii titles. 



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nordlead said:
leatherhat said:
I'm going to repost what I said in the article comments:



Who the hell is buying this thing? All my friends, who all game to various extents haven't touched one since brawl came out. No one in my whole extended family, friends of friends, or even minor acquaintances don't but it. So who is? I know we talk about casuals and how wii sells to grandmas and children, but I always figured it was more as much a joke as it was true. But is there really this vast audience of Grandmas and soccer moms eating this up? How does a console with such little rapport with the gaming audience sell so well?

Before anyone asks, I'm not mad, the wiis hardware success means little to me. I just can't wrap my head around it.

I do I'm sorry all your friends haven't been interested in any of the great games since brawl, but that is probably because they refuse to even be remotely interested not because there are no good games.

Now answer this question. Who the hell buys a X360 or PS3. I know 0 people personally (other than myself) who have either.

No its not that, they all got wiis at launch (same with me) and the software just hasn't been there. Of the ten people I know with wiis, who all got it in the first few months of release, maybe 5 bought brawl, and one bought NSMBwii. And its not like they switched to ps3 or xbox, they just don't play games anymore, or they play on PC. And they were all at various levels of gaming enjoyment, some are huge gamers, others were what we would call casuals. None of them like the wii however.

And as for your question, the wii is almost doing double the sales of those two combined, so I would expect to see an impact of some sort amongst all the people I know, even if it was small.



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psrock said:
nordlead said:
psrock said:

we had wii selling more than amount shipped by a  million.

It happened

So 1m high over the course of 3 months isn't too bad. Either way, overtracking in the past doesn't mean that VGChartz is overtracking now. Also, 1.5m is less than the 1.7m they did last year (at the peak), so again, it doesn't really mean it is overtracked. Ultimately I'm surprised by 1.5m, but it isn't out of the realm of possibility.

What's going on Norlead, kid keeping you up.

Last year it did 1.2 million in the same week, so almost 400k more was sold this week than last year.

By thrend, I see 2 million next week vs 1.7 million it did last year.

I am not saying it's overtracked, it just sellling so damn much, my God.

Nothing. Just discussing the possibility that this is "overtracked". It wasn't an attack at your or anyone, so I see no reason for the last comment. I said myself, that the numbers are higher than I expected, however, Walmart may have been capable of pushing a few extra 100k due to their week long deal. I wouldn't be surprised by no growth next week, but then again, maybe Mario was a huge world wide hardware booster and it will break 2m units. Heck, Wii sales in Japan are way higher than I expected this week, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to see the same in the rest of the world.




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Wait...1.5mil. Ina week?! Crikey. The Wii is a monster. Almost seems surreal.



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leatherhat said:
Serious_frusting said:
CGI-Quality said:
Serious_frusting said:
PS3 doing terrible

Laugh out loud? O_o

No serious. It really is doing terrible when you think about it

Its up 50 percent YoY, its outsold its main competition by 200k, it has a good chance of breaking a million with the release of FF13 next week. How is it doing bad again?

Put it this way. If you take away the 70k+ sales the PS3 has had in Japan then these numbers are horrible really. The west clearly are not purchasing the PS3's.

 

Even with 70k from Japan the ps3 isnt even able to outsell the 360 of last year that sold sod all in Japan. So really the 360 western last year is greater then the PS3 WW this year. Without Japan the PS3 wouldnt have even passed the 600k mark



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leatherhat said:
nordlead said:

I do I'm sorry all your friends haven't been interested in any of the great games since brawl, but that is probably because they refuse to even be remotely interested not because there are no good games.

Now answer this question. Who the hell buys a X360 or PS3. I know 0 people personally (other than myself) who have either.

No its not that, they all got wiis at launch (same with me) and the software just hasn't been there. Of the ten people I know with wiis, who all got it in the first few months of release, maybe 5 bought brawl, and one bought NSMBwii. And its not like they switched to ps3 or xbox, they just don't play games anymore, or they play on PC. And they were all at various levels of gaming enjoyment, some are huge gamers, others were what we would call casuals. None of them like the wii however.

And as for your question, the wii is almost doing double the sales of those two combined, so I would expect to see an impact of some sort amongst all the people I know, even if it was small.

The "haven't played a game since Brawl" thing is a really just people not even trying to look for a good game. This could be because they lost interest or got interested in another system (or PC) or hobby. I really don't care, but there are plenty of games that are being released that gain the interest of other people.

I'm just saying, personal experience with who owns/plays certain consoles does not in any way reflect reality.




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There is no point discussing over/under tracking now. Once the shipment data arrives all should be clear.

Right now looks like HW in Dec 09 will be less than 08 mainly because of the PS2/PSP.



Serious_frusting said:
leatherhat said:
Serious_frusting said:
CGI-Quality said:
Serious_frusting said:
PS3 doing terrible

Laugh out loud? O_o

No serious. It really is doing terrible when you think about it

Its up 50 percent YoY, its outsold its main competition by 200k, it has a good chance of breaking a million with the release of FF13 next week. How is it doing bad again?

Put it this way. If you take away the 70k+ sales the PS3 has had in Japan then these numbers are horrible really. The west clearly are not purchasing the PS3's.

 

Even with 70k from Japan the ps3 isnt even able to outsell the 360 of last year that sold sod all in Japan. So really the 360 western last year is greater then the PS3 WW this year. Without Japan the PS3 wouldnt have even passed the 600k mark

And without America the xbox would be at 15 million. A sales a sale regardless of where it comes from. Plus without that 70k PS3 would still be outselling xbox by 100k, not bad considering the price difference.



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