UK stats company Chart-Track has said news of the PS3's sales in UK dropping by over 80 percent in its second week are just meaningless. They are bemused as to how anyone can jump to conclusions after two weeks of a systems launch and say there are a number of issues as to why this huge sales drop happened.
Unfortunately, Chart-Track said it would not release comparable figures for Xbox 360 or Wii sales, which would add some context to the figures. Figures for previous week two console launches are unreliable due to the usual shortages problem.
Bloch added, “In almost all console launch scenarios, there has been no stock in a second week on sale. Sony, for a number of reasons, had extra stock available. So there really aren’t many comparable precedents for week two sales. Judging a console based on nine days on sale is just crazy. It doesn’t make any sense.”