Weekly PS3 Sales Top Weekly Wii Sales For the First Time Since Spring 07

The exclusive Playstation 3 release, Metal Gear Solid 4, alongside special bundles and deals to promote the game worldwide have pushed PS3 hardware sales above Wii hardware sales for the first time in 2008 . Still, the battle was still close, with PS3 sales at 320,000 units compared to Wii sales at 296,000 units. In the 'Others' region PS3 has outsold Wii three times in 2008 , though unlike in Japan and the Americas, this week was not one of those times that PS3 outsold Wii. The Americas has seen the greatest supply issues for Wii in 2008, and PS3 has been able to capitalize on the issue four times this year. Lastly, in Japan this week PS3 was able to outsell Wii for the first time in 2008.

Since the PS3 launched November 2006, PS3 has only managed to outsell Wii worldwide in a given week three times. Two of the weeks were associated with the PS3 European launch in the Spring of 2007, and the third is this week. Since launch in the Americas, Wii has outsold PS3 all but seven weeks . The story is similar in 'Others'; Wii has outsold PS3 in all but eight weeks , though with less sales time in the European segment of Others, it is clearly the strongest PS3 region. As for Japan, PS3 has now outsold Wii a total of four times , including this week, since each machine was available in the region.

While PS3 occasionally outsells Wii because of supply issues in a region or two, it has been rare for PS3 to outsell Wii worldwide. The next few weeks, if the history of this generation so far is any indication will likely show PS3 sliding below Wii once again.

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My local Best Buy sold twelve more PS3's this week than Wii's. Woo hoo let's celebrate PS3 will now win the war! YEEHAWW

Not surprise. I'm not exactly a fan of the series, but it seems MGS4 is moving PS3 sales. Good for Sony & Konami.

There's been a surge of PS3 buyers at my local Best Buy. I was there for about an hour and I've seen about 6-8 people carrying PS3s to the cash register Wednesday night. There was one MGS4 Bundle left, one lucky guy got it. And the rest were getting the MGS4 game and the 40gb model together.

Vgcharts are estimates nothing concrete. The Wii outsold everything, every month, in every year, period. Not a Wii fan, by the way. But the Wii is a bad*** system. the Fad will not go away. Makes both Sony and Microsoft work harder though.loftus42

[QUOTE="loftus42"]Vgcharts are estimates nothing concrete. The Wii outsold everything, every month, in every year, period. Not a Wii fan, by the way. But the Wii is a bad*** system. the Fad will not go away. Makes both Sony and Microsoft work harder though.ThePlothole

360 outsold the Wii when Halo 3 came out.. Didn't exactly single the end of the Wii and the rise of the 360 either.

Just saying that I don't expect this to exactly be a new era for the PS3.

Congrats Konami and Kojima, that's it.

edit: and Walmart.

360 outsold the Wii when Halo 3 came out.. Didn't exactly single the end of the Wii and the rise of the 360 either.

Just saying that I don't expect this to exactly be a new era for the PS3.

user_nat

exactly, weekly sales are worthless.

let's compare daily sales tomorrow..>.>

360 outsold the Wii when Halo 3 came out.. Didn't exactly single the end of the Wii and the rise of the 360 either.

Just saying that I don't expect this to exactly be a new era for the PS3.

user_nat

Agreed... this is just due to MGSIV. Still an achievement though.

finally.. I might have to eat my words for poking fun at them.. (getting beat by something called a wii).. Time to break out the bubbly... YeAA!~ if only they can only keep this momentum..

Counting weekly sales, is like counting hourly sales....Blue-Sky

So I guess media create is irrelevant now. :roll:

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]Counting weekly sales, is like counting hourly sales....-Renegade

So I guess media create is irrelevant now. :roll:

Sorry if it took to long to respond, was trying to look for where I said it was irrelevant. Just can't seem to find it. Oh well...