Now that the Wii and PS3 have officially more than one year in the market, I made an interesting analysis of the sales of these 2 consoles compared to their rivals and antecessors.

Sony PlayStation 3:

PS3 is the worst selling console ever for Sony by a large margin. At 57 weeks, PS3 sales are the same number as the sales of the PS2 in 10 weeks, PSP in 30 weeks, Gamecube in 50 weeks and Wii in 10 weeks.

As you can see, PS3 is doing really bad even if Sony wants to ‘brain-wash’ everybody with Black Day percentages. Nintendo Gamecube, the worst-selling console (excluding Dreamcast) of the last generation sold considerably more than the PS3 in the same amount of time. That’s in my opinion something that Sony has to worry about.

Nintendo Wii:

Wii, in 1 year surpassed the total sales of the Gamecube in Japan. Wii in 54 weeks is where Gameboy Advance was (in terms of sales) in 40 weeks, where DS was in 54 weeks, where PS3 was in 66 weeks and where the PSP was at 95 weeks.

The best-selling console of all time, the PS2 sold less than what Wii has sold in the same amount of time. That’s something shocking. DS, which is the best-selling console of the actual consoles sold basically the same amount as the Wii in the same time. If things keep being as good as now, the Nintendo Wii can easily become the best selling system ever (excluding the Gameboy line).

Fans of each brand, you have the reasons to be happy……. or worried for your consoles.

For more information, check these charts: PS3 & Wii

P.S: Next week it’s time for some rumors and Xbox 360 sales analysis. Come back soon and I always appreciate your feedback!

Let’s face the reality. Even if a lot of people doesn’t want to admit it. they have been disappointed more than once by the poor performance of the latest Sony console. 2007 can be easily considered as the worst year for the PlayStation brand. The sales are depressing, Sony “Father” Ken Kutaragi got kicked out from the company, all the “hits” have been smashed by the critics and media, let’s take a look of why the 2007 is something that no PS fan would like to remember.

 Lair:

Average ratio: 54/100

# copies sold: 163k in 13 weeks.

Heavenly Sword:

Average ratio: 79/100

# copies sold: 212k in 11 weeks.

Loco Roco Cocoreccho:

Average ratio: 71/100

# copies sold: N/A

Folklore:

Average ratio: 74/100

# copies sold: 66k in 7 weeks.

Ratchet & Clank Future:

Average ratio: 89/100

# copies sold: 180k in 5 weeks.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune:

Average ratio: 89/100

# copies sold: 75k in debut week.

The Eye of Judgment:

Average ratio: 74/100

# copies sold: 72k in 5 weeks.

Warhawk:

Average ratio: 84/100

# copies sold: 166k in 13 weeks (bundle version).

As everybody can see, most, if not all of the PS3 first-party games have failed in some way. Let’s take for example Lair, arguably the biggest disappointmend of the year, which got a mediocre average ratio of 54/100 and basically bombed in retailers selling only 163k in 13 weeks. Heavenly Sword, portrayed numerous times by Sony like one of the first “next-gen” experiences, and an AAA game. What was the result? a game with a decent average of 79/100 wich also bombed in retailers selling barely 210k. Folklore, probably nobody was expecting something really big from this game, and that’s reflected in the sales; 66k in more than one month.

Ok, probably the reason of why those games are selling so poor it’s because people consider them mediocre. But, what’s wrong with the Sony consumer? Even the highest rated games of the console have sold really low numbers, take for example the Imsomniac game; Ratchet & Clank future. This one, being the highest rated game of the PS3 only sold around 200k in more than 4 weeks. Also, Uncharted Drake’s Fortune debuted with an inexcusable 75k.

Those 2 games are below the average of what Metacritic considers an AAA title, but, even if they don’t are high-quality software, they are by no means bad games. So what’s wrong with the sales? Publicity? No. Every month you see gigantic advertisments for PS3 games in popular American magazines such as MAD, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Playboy, Game Informer, etc. and the sales are still disappointing.

The same happens with the hardware sales. Honestly, I don’t believe that 5.000.000 around the world in 1 year is something to be proud of. Not even the reduced prices are working well for the PS3 in America, where the Microsoft console it’s outselling the PS3 by a considerable margin. Nintendo Wii, a console that’s being sold only in bundles that cost more than the PS3 is selling incredible well too. (Wal-Mart). So there’s no excuse for Sony.

Sony, you have 2 rivals that get exclusive triple A games frequently, and are selling software in amazing rates. What’s wrong with you? Do you wanna be considered a failure such as the Sega Dreamcast? or the Atari Jaguar? If you don’t wanna end like one of those consoles, you better have to start making some quality software and get back your audience that probably is getting more fun with the competition.

Thanks to Metacritic for the averages and the NPD & VGChartz for the sales.

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Ok, a lot, maybe every videogame reviewer (or person) praised Wii’s Super Mario Galaxy visuals in their reviews. Something that doesn’t happen a lot with the graphics of this console. But, things look even better the next year.

One of my moles told me that Nintendo is using the graphical engine of Galaxy (wich can do impressive fur shading, lighting, particles, bump-mapping, etc.)  for their upcoming first-party games. Now, what game would be the first to use it? My money goes to Pikmin 3.

Sony recently confirmed the development of God of War 3 for PS3. Well, I can guarantee you that this one is coming in the Q4 2008, and it’s going to support various of the PS3 features, such as Dual-Shock 3 compatibility, 1080p, Home Trophies, etc.

Hi Wii fans, this is a pair of nuggets that I have for you. EDGE Magazine published an article about the upcoming Animal Crossing for Wii, and they wrote that this one is going to be an MMO. Well, that’s truth. This game is being created as one of the premier Wii Online experiences and it’s definitely an MMO. Worried about the lack of hard drive on Wii? Don’t be. Somebody is telling me that a Wii + Hard Drive is indeed planed to appear when the release of this title is ready (Q4 2008). Also, people can still use SD cards to save their data (A 2GB SD Card is going to be packed with this Animal Crossing, you can count on that).

Other game that’s going to show sometime in late 2008 or early 2009 is the new Star Fox. My Ninja spy told me that the new Fox McCloud adventure is being developed by a Nintendo second-party developer, and it’s going to be very similar to the N64 classic (no more crappy on-foot missions like Assault). Information about this game is going to appear very early the next year, and a lot of people would be impressed and would restore their faith about this franchise, because this latest entry is getting a lot of attention from Nintendo.

Hi guys, I’m Top Secret, and from now, I’m gonna post some juicy rumors that I know about the videogame industry. How do I know that? Well, that’s something that I can’t answer, but trust me, I have some information that’s going to be interesting for you, and is real, you can count on that.

That’s all what I’m gonna say from now, but please, read this site frequently and you are going to learn quite a few nice things that probably nobody else knows. Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony fans, this is your blog for rumors. You can post commentaries in each story, so try to keep a good language, ok?

Thanks a lot.

- TOP Secret