I really don't understand that. The PS2 had massive shortages for a long time after launch (like the Wii is now). The PS3 started piling up on store shelves just a few months after it launched. Is Sony really producing that many more PS3 consoles per month than they did with the PS2 per month?


NGP is Neo Geo Pocket I believe. I think the earliest console they have statistics for is the SNES. I assume that back in the NES days, they did not think the video game market would explode into the huge market it is today, so they didn't bother keeping statistics like this.

I wish that some obscure consoles like the Atari Jaguar and 3DO were on there. It would be interesting to see their sales graphs. :lol:

As an "older" gamer I can tell you that my friends picked on me for gaming, and that made me stop at 1 system. Now that it's more acceptable for guys my age to play games I don't mind buying any, or all the systems.

Here's a chart showing the effect the PS3 price drop had on weekly sales worldwide:

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/8...charts3ru3.png

http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons...3=All&weekly=1

Too early to tell. Looks like they are headed towards a spike.

Their site's hardware charts haven't worked for me in a while.

I've had a lot of trouble too. They don't have a lot of bandwidth, I think, so whether or not a particular query will work is on par with playing a slot machine.

maybe if you weren't so addicted to the site, they'd have enough bandwidth for the rest of us!

I'm surprised that the PS3 and 360 are neck to neck. I thought the PS3 was lagging behind.

Neck and neck? Maybe monthly, but the PS3 lags behind the 360 by about 6.5 million. Everyone assumed 10 million would be essentially be hit overnight with the launch of the PS3 on the name alone. That hasn't been the case.

If you're talking about my first chart they are neck and neck worldwide if you align the launches. The PS3 launched a year later, so it still has a lot of catching up to do.

In Japan, the PS3 is already ahead of Xbox360. But in North America, it's a bit farther behind.