kitler53 said:
BenVTrigger said:
kitler53 said:
BenVTrigger said:
kowenicki said:
BenVTrigger said:
pretty darn good sales for the 360, numbers would be even bigger if we at Gamestop could actually come close to meeting demand, unforunatly we can't at all these new Slims are gonna be sold out for a long long time.
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Excellent news. Is this the same in other stores, other Gamestop stores and competitor stores too?
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well I can't really talk about the specifics in my job because i could basically get in some huge trouble because there's been a lockdown on us at Gamestop since we leaked the Black Wii coming to America and Assassins Creed Brotherhood and all that but I have talked to all the store managers in a LARGE area (roughly 16 stores) and I know we are sold threw on Pre-Orders for the system for the next two shipments, In other words in our district people aren't even aloud to pre-order the system anymore because we can't come close to meeting demand and can't promise them when they can get a system because our next two Shipments are already completly sold out and they haven't even hit the retail floor yet.
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any thoughts on the new customers vs. replacement 360s ratio. i just really don't get why this level of demand for a redesign. if we take the baseline sales of the 360 at 50k and assume that MS had enough supply to meet demand then the lauch of the 360 slim would have reached 317k just in america(a 634% increase) plus we apparently still haven't met demand. the ps3 redesign only did around 500k worldwide with a $100 price drop. these number just seem too big to me.
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I will tell you its very true that ALOT of these are selling to pre-existing owners. We are seeing alot of people upgrading their old consoles to this newer model. At the same time though we are seeing an increase in new buyers as well since the launch of the 360s. I would say if I had to put a number on it I would say 60% prior owners and 40% new buyers. Also to be honest with you these numbers look small honestly compared to what I think it should be doing. We litteraly haven't seen demand for a console like this since the Wii launch and its first year on shelves. I'm not exactly sure what has pushed momentum so hard but the 360 in America right now is king even over the Wii, our Kinect pre-orders are massive too which may have something to do this huge rise in hardware numbers, not sure though.
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even if only 40% of these sales are new buyers that still a ton of new owners. if this is a pre-effect of kinect then maybe i understand cause vs. the previous model included wireless at the same price just doesn't seem to warrent this kind of increased demand. however, if this is really post E3 kinect momentum then i have even less faith in americans. it's almost like people want video games to suck balls.
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Hey now, it's called Ultra Casuals. Gaming is different for everyone. The tag line for the phone calls at my local GameStops was "Thank you for calling GameStop where you can get your name down on Microsoft Kinect, how can I help you?" for the last few weeks.
It seems in the US at least that Kinect is pushing a lot more interest even at the rumored price of $150.
