MS needs to find a way to permanently boost sales to the 7k to 10k a week range on average. They succeeded somewhat in boosting sales with BD, lets see what a lower priced hardware and software, bundled games and games like Lost Odyssey can do with the 360 in 2008.
| TheSource said: Sales should be remarkably close for the three consoles in Japan this week. I suspect that Wii still has the highest demand of the big three - although things are going to luck muddled until holiday demand kicks in. If somehow PS3 outsells Wii after the release of Wii Fit and the influx of holiday demand for the rest of 2007, then I'd be willing to ammend my position that Wii will dominate Japan. Japanese sales rates don't really increase until late November/early December though, so we're weeks away from knowing for certain. Wii Fit I suspect will be a slow burner - mediocre debut due to cost - but see very little weekly change in sales as people become addicted to it. Still if Mario/Wii Fit/holiday demand can't propell Wii ahead of PS3 in Japan this holiday, then the only other titles with even the potential to provide some kind of bump would be Nights, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronciles, and Super Smash Brothers (all coming for the Japanese holidays late Nov to January). Brawl is really the only guarenteed big Wii title for Japan until Mario Kart. |
You should still admit that your Wii estimates were way too high, your PS3 estimates were a little too low, and your 360 estimates were drastically low. Shit, the 360 sold 25% of your total estimate for two and a half months in one week. What do you expect it to do now?
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Hm, looking at the front page, sales are:
40K Wii
18K 360
17K PS3
What are all you guys talking about? This looks very different from what everyone is saying.
And @leoj: very cool, your agressive behaviour with totally unproven (and now disproven?) claims. so much for any kind of integrity. well done.
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First of all, PS3 40GB sold 36k first day not 31k, the 5k weren't "normal" PS3, they were black 40GB. Of course I assume that information at this link is true:
http://www.gamefront.de/
(you have to scroll to find the right news)
| Faxanadu said: Hm, looking at the front page, sales are: 40K Wii 18K 360 17K PS3 What are all you guys talking about? This looks very different from what everyone is saying. And @leoj: very cool, your agressive behaviour with totally unproven (and now disproven?) claims. so much for any kind of integrity. well done. |
I think they speculating on figures for this week that have appeared as rumours on other forums.
Even if the new 40gig PS3 has outsold the Wii by 4000 units, it's hardly something to celebrate since it is 3:1 behind overall with a gap of 2.5 million.
Out of interest what is the price difference between Wii and 40gig PS3 in japan?
@kamil
Yeah and read it it says 31000 are the new 40GB PS3's, the white ones, 5000 are the older versions, black
Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)
llewdebkram said:
I think they speculating on figures for this week that have appeared as rumours on other forums. Even if the new 40gig PS3 has outsold the Wii by 4000 units, it's hardly something to celebrate since it is 3:1 behind overall with a gap of 2.5 million. Out of interest what is the price difference between Wii and 40gig PS3 in japan? |
understood. However, Coke was clearly referring to the week before and wanted to discuss that sales figure.
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The interesting thing is, the ps3 wtill cost more than the wii, and smg was released and wii sales dropped..
People/fans of each console:
You don't have to make 10 new threads each time a console outsells another just for a week or a month. It's totally useless.
- PSP outold DS during the PSPLite launch for about a month, yet its again lagging behind in sales and DS will more than regain the lost ground by year's end.
- XBox360 outsold PS3 because of an exclusive good game (AC) but lags behind every other nex-gen console (including portables) by a large margin and will have a nearly non-existant hoiday period in Japan.
- Wii seriously lags behind in Japan lately, yet holds more than 70% of the console market.
Seriously, preserve your energy for after the holiday rush (after December - mid January). That's when Japan sales seriously spike and you can draw some useful conclusions.
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