elnino334 said:
So best buy figures based on their internal data or research that they can get Wii/360 owners in to the stores more so then PS3 owners? Is that kind of what your saying? Do they hope once those consumers are in the store they will notice the PS3? It just seems odd to me they didn't have any sales at all for the PS3 when they can do things where you can get blue-ray movies etc. I mean this has been going on for a long time which I think is a big reason why the 360 does better then PS3 in overral sales. I wonder if we will see more PS3 sales(discounts) once it drops in price. |
I don't see any PS3 discounts immediately following a price drop, since the price drop itself should be driving people to get the system.
There's 2 reasons why retailers didn't advertise PS3 as much in the US this holiday season. 1 is that Sony probably didn't help out. Hardware companies offer incentives to retailers to help push their products. The other, is that advertisements are meant to get as many people as possible to go to their store. Once there, they can try to upsell a more expensive product. So a $200 Blu-ray player or 360 might get a customer into the store, but maybe, just maybe, that customer can be talked into getting a 160GB PS3 with a game and a Blu-Ray movie. But on it's own, the least popular, most expensive system isn't likely to get more customers into the store than the most popular console or the cheapest Blu-Ray player.
