| theprof00 said: [...] Well don't be confused, I'd be excited if it happened, but last year ps3 outsold 360 almost the entire year, and then came Christmas. This year, 360 is definitely going to get a price reduction and it's going to be the same shit all over again. PS3 had a price reduction last year, and now the gap in price is going to be exactly as it was before. This is not a good thing. Really ps3 is going to need that versus 13 to be exclusive and get that new god of war, and just something, because it isn't exactly going to blow the roof off with the lineup this year, imo. PS3 is going to need a way to compete over Christmas, otherwise it's just going to be the same thing all over again. |
PS3 kept part of the gap reduction it achieved through the year anyway.
Moreover, Kinect launch in 2010 and huge 2nd BF and Xmas boosts in 2011 fully justified the huge advertising and marketing investments MS made the last two years, but it's quite likely that next BF and Xmas, with XB360 finally declining, that investment won't be as big, while the price reduction will be just formal, as de facto XB360 has already long been available for far less than $150/150€.
We can expect XB360 to win Xmas shipments again anyway, as it sells extremely well and retailers will prefer to sell some more units during clearance sales that risking shortages for the holidays, but maybe this time they'll have enough sales data to avoid ordering SO many more than necessary.
Finally, about global weekly numbers, good 3DS and PS3 WW, meh the others, horrible DS, good PSV in Europe and XB360 in NA, and a curious diagonal pattern of the top 3, with 3DS dominating Japan, PS3 europe and XB360 North America. Still too early to tell around what numbers PSV will stabilize, but Sony must do something more in America and a LOT more in Japan for it.
