Well trust me it isn't likely to do it outside of a holiday week. DS, PS2, and Wii only accomplish these things in holiday months as well haha. Only other potential sales pusher is a thing like Slim or DSi that has increased sales at colossal rates but those kinds of things aren't likely to happen for PS3 again.

So things like GT5 release will definitely give push in sales but not enough to go over a million. Remember, PS3 is probably going to be at a 200k-300k sales rate a week in normal months when come off of holidays (which may be too higher but I think it is a good range for such a topic). Meaning you'd need something to expand sales by over 700,000 units. No game in the history of gaming has pushed that much hardware in one week. No matter how big GT5 ends up being pushing that much is not within reasonable range. I'm never one to cancel out possibilities so I won't here but we need to be realistic on that front.

Thus that limits our timeframe. Meaning it'll have to happen again on a Black Friday week or the sales peak of each year (last full week before Christmas). Even though ioi stated sales would be flat for this week, he's meaning on a day to day basis which means we'll still have to factor out the loss of hours on Christmas Eve and entire day lost of sales. Meaning there still is going to be a certain loss in sales (some even attributed to limited stock as usual at this time of the year). So flat is more or less saying drops won't be as large as they usually are due to the timeframe this year. 800k as someone stated for PS3 that week seems somewhat reasonable. Though it still has a shot but it'll need a big push in Japan, not flat sales to be able to achieve this.

Therefore we'll be looking to 2010 and we are left with 2 potential weeks. Hey it's possible but Sony is going to have to do some strong marketing and holiday pushes to really make it as big as they did this year. It's hard to come off a big holiday season one year and then outdo yourself the next year. Just ask Wii and 360. Hell ask PS2 and on a smaller level ask the DS. $200 PS3 would help but nothing certain yet.


Now one week I could suggest is a worldwide release of GT5 in the holiday season of 2010. That could certainly give it the boost it needed to be able to reach it. Might need some bundles to help it out as well.

Probably never. Last week was the perfect storm with FF13 and Xmas 2009. I don't see that happening again for next year or the year after.

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we all know it that it wouldn't have done it without FF13.Its kinda obvious without the FF13 boost PS3 wudn't have hit 1m this week

stop acting like 'you know it all' person.

and PS3 has a very big chance of hitting 1m in nxt years holiday season with GT5 coming out near Black friday.

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yeah but who says that's gonna happen?  It would have to be another perfect storm like FF13 where they launch a huge game on the biggest week of the year.  I think most people will agree it's possible under certain circumstances, just that they are likely not gonna work out that way.  I mean wal-mart could offer PS3 for $200 on this week next year and it would probably happen, but you can't just predict those kind of things.  It's likely that sales will be down next year as well, the slim and price cut have a gone a long ways this year. 

Why next week good sir

Nah, probably never alas. Best chance might be Black Friday 2010 - if a price cut / GT bundle comes out...

But until GT aligns with Xmas, bundles or not - it won't get even close to a 1m week.

FFXIII is the biggest game in Japan - and its that bump that caused the 1m to be reached.

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Another way to answer this - when is the next time PS3 will sell 240k+ in Japan for a week?

the only other game that can do that is DQ, and it would have to be launched at xmas again.