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Cobretti2 on 27 November 2012
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Euphoria14 said:
Cobretti2 said:
archbrix said:

Finally, again, the economy is quite different today than it was six years ago.  While people are still willing to spend money for the holidays, you're not going to see the WiiU - or a newly released PS4/NeXtBox - hitting remotely close to $9000...


This is so true. When I visited America during the holidays in 2006, everyone was crazy spending (even the people I was staying with).

When I visited them again in 2008 (this was before the crash), all they could talk about is how they don't know if they will have a job, how fuel is expensive, how this is expensive. I perosnally found it amusing as petrol comapred to Australia was DAMN cheap still. They were so worried about their financial situation that they would not even spend $5 on a pack of 24 coke cans t walmart. To me that was like a no brainer don't think twice as 24 pack of coke in Australia was about $30 at the time.

 

I guess the point I am making, if there were signs back in 2008 of people starting to worry, I can only imagine what 2012 is like in the USA.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/25/pf/black-friday-sales/index.html

Wow, thats good to see for the US at least. It would have been nice to see if this increase is roughly even across america, or places that got hit really hard during the financial crisis are still in the shit.

Overall interesting read, each person on average spend $423 dollars. Which is really enough to buy a WiiU and a game.

My guess is most of those spending would break that up to invest into several presents for family members.

DS, 3DS and Wii price points would be huge swing votes, not to mention the very popular 360 atm in the USA.

Then we also know that every tom dick and harry wants a tablet, so WiiU ends up being significantly lower on the prioity chain for shopper atm.