I'm pretty sure most of the Sony fan and 360 fans expected that too... I mean most people were saying how the Wii could easily top a million again this week weren't they?

No, most were saying it might make 900K, but 1 million wasn't reasonable.

Even "doomed" PSP sales exceed 360 sales by 40k, congrats to Sony and booh to MS !

Looks like 360 fans were wrong... again.

In fairness, the reason people didn't expect *anything* is because there'd been a long trend of mega-hyped 1st party product that'd failed to move significant hardware on PS3 (Heavenly Sword, Uncharted, Motorstorm 2, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, inFamous, etc).  The real differentiating factor in UC2's case seems to be the $299 Slim, 

And honestly, given the sorts of resources funneled into UC2, the sales aren't even impressive imo, certainly not significant.  A 20k weekly bump, in just one region (sales actually dropped UC2 launch week in EU/JP by nearly 15k), that wasn't sustained, isn't really much to crow about when looking at the larger picture. It's actually pretty sad considering all UC2 had going for it.

My guess would be that Sony will use this years E3 as a major platform to launch their whole 3D angle on the PS3. I would expect small bits of information to leak out over the year with a couple of demonstrations and then a large showing at E3 with some compatible games. I doubt they will want to cut the price again this year (and I doubt they need to with the current sales trends) and so this could be there best way of stealing hype from Natal. 3D is all the rage at the minute and a big E3 showing could really get the mainstream media behind the PS3 and deflect some of the attention from Natal without having to compromise pricing.

No doubt we'll also see more wand games but I think we have to admit that the press won't take to that like they will Natal (or hopefully 3D).

Expected by who exactly?

And I disagree about "everything else is irrelevant" and also with your claim that the other games were "unproven".  Resistance 1 and Motorstorm 1 were HUGE sellers upfront, but their biennial sequels fizzled.  Uncharted 2 moved a sum total of 5k additional hardware worldwide it's launch week.  Sure, that's something, but not really something significant.  If anything, I would say that UC2 moved an insignificant amount of hardware.

I tend to think GOW3 will do much better, and March will be up a ton in March thanks to GT5 in Japan alone, but to be frank, I'm not basing any of that off UC2's middling performance.  It's not proof of anything really, expect that Sony can spend with the best of them. 

Whats the margin of error on Vgchartz hardware? + or - 10%? Anything which falls within that range is probably just noise. It would be like saying that the poll results were up 2% on a poll with a 3% margin of error. Statistically noone ought to pay any attention to it, its just noise on the graph.

Smooth out the sales of the PS3 to 2 week periods to remove noise and put a pointer saying this is where Uncharted 2 entered the market and you'd probably see nothing of significance.

If we keep changing the meaning of system seller to ever lower quantities of hardware it really dilutes the meaning of the words. So in the future do we go:

Uncharted 2 is a system seller.

Metal Gear Solid is a system seller.

Halo 3 is a system seller.

Wii Fit is a system seller.

Wii Sports is a system seller.

and just keep increasing the size of the text. maybe next year we can say:

God of War is a system seller.

damn no effence but the 360 is hopeless in sales

lol!  You've gotten my point across better than I ever could have. <3

No doubt, like Uncharted 2, GOW3 certainly has the chance to (barely) move hardware. I don't think anyone's really contesting that now.