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Now would probably be a pretty good time to cut prices.
Yeah except this summer when I'm abroad for 2 months and probably wont be playing much of anything.
Ironically of all places Edmonton.
Wont have time to go to PAX though, which is depressing.
In all reality both consoles are selling fairly well for this time of year. When you compare them to the Wii they look like dismal failures but its been like that since the Wii dropped. Thats why I usually block out the wii sales when I look at these. Its a safe bet theyre far and above anyways.
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I can see why a pricecut is a tough sale right now, even if I personally think their pricing strategy this generation has been an abomination. If they're really committed to marketshare, they'd still be well advised to do it but I think they're realized it's not in the cards this time around, and having vanquished HD-DVD on the shoulders of the PS3 already I think they'll be content to hold steady with the soild PS3 sales they have now instead of striving for the Wii stratosphere. Which is probably their best course of action, really.
The European one from what we hear has been a success. GTA4 is like a week away.
Just announce 50 dollars off and I think thats all they need for a year or more.
Would this mean that Microsoft is in a stronger position to cut prices since they're a US-based company and so not as directly affected by the low dollar?
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Some guy at Nintendo HQ in Japan is probably chugging a jug of Jim Beam or something over the extra profit that could have been.
edit: re, microsoft... I'd imagine the manufacturing is happening overseas so they're probably not lovin' it either.
Yes.
Or to put it another way, they aren't suffering because of the weak dollar, Sony is.
But all of this is irrelevant because you ALL are suffering under the iron fist of the pound sterling. We shall conquer all! Doomed you all are.
Yeah, I'm still expecting the Pre-GTA4 price drop for the 360.
The HD consoles are both tracking the Gamecube if you align on launch dates. That's not exactly horrible, but keep in mind HD games cost a lot more to develop than CG games did. As a successor to the PS2 the PS3 is a huge, huge failure. I'm not really sure what MS expectations going into this gen were.
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Wii 721K +178% 259K
NDS 698K +37% 508K
PSP 297K +65% 180K
360 262K +32% 199K
PS3 257K +97% 130K
PS2 216K -23% 280K
Some year over year. Wow @ Wii and PS3 growth.
I believe if you do month for month, adjusting for number of weeks that the only system that made ground was the Wii, believe it or not.
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That makes me want to look up the neogaf thread for march 2007's npd.
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Then the option came up to get a Wii, so I picked one up.
And then I made a great fucking deal on a 360 so I picked it up too.
Now I've got every goddamn current console except for the PS3, and I can't keep up with any of them.
In fact I'll likely end up selling my PSP because I haven't touched it since October. Though that's largely because I have yet to find a Slim screen protector and I'm worried about scratching the screen any more than it already is.
Clamshell FTW.
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March 2007 was a five week month.
It wont be long before I buy rockband for the equivalent of around $350
and ill be carrying it home in my golden carriage, while jeeves opens the doors to my ivory tower while i sip champagne while exquisite boys waft me with palm leaves, so that i may enjoy my exclusive UK content in comfort on my polar bear skin rug while angelina gives me a back rub.
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I did mention that.
Due to the recent price cuts, in England, the 360 Arcade can be bought for less than a Wii, and supposedly sales have gone right up.
The Wii is pounding both 360 and PS3 in monthly sales at the moment in NA, and the next couple of months look strong for it too. So I'm thinking both the 360 and are overdue a price drop in the US, given that Europe has recently received one. Combined with GTAIV, like Scarab said above, a price drop could really shift units, and let's face it, both companies have extra potential cash revenues which open up when hardware is sitting in homes (Sony with Blue-ray, Microsoft with Live subscription and a plethora of peripherals).
The profits probably wouldn't be that high. Now if you bought stock in Nintendo before the DS came out...
Looks like the 360 was really supply-constrained during the start of the year after all. Apparently sales between the PS3 and 360 are settling back where they were before.
God of War and Final Fantasy PSP did well, though it had absolutely no effect on hardware sales.
Jesus Christ Smash is a monster.
Nintendo must be making Wiis like crazy, because they sold that many before Wii Fit came out (which the company is obviously planning big things for, considering it will have the biggest ad budget of anything Nintendo ever).
I pity the poor guy who had to write the Microsoft press release this month.
Just wait till June assholes.
We need to start our own prediction market. With blackjack. And hookers.
I don't know your definition of high, but the stock nearly doubling in a year and a quarter is pretty fucking good to me and if you happen to have bought the stock 2.25 years ago it would have nearly quadrupled.
Estimates (since I'm missing a plugin)
Jan 06 - 18
Jan 07 - 32
Today - 65
They could just point to Europe;
Bolded part for relevant positive news. I think the Wii is ahead in units sold by some margin, can't remember the numbers, but 360 is certainly selling something well.
A million seller
on PS3: almost like
waiting for Godot
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What in the fuck does that mean?
EDIT: Just checked wikipedia. So you're saying there are no million sellers on PS3? Id be willing to be my cock that there are at least 8.
wtf.
Also, Crystal Chronicles did a little bit better than I expected. I was expecting 60k sales.
Hot Shots looks pretty low, and indeed it is, but I want to say that those particular games usually have legs, but I could be wrong.
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