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Bamboleo on 26 May 2010
ramses01 said:
Bamboleo said:
I wonder if Natal is going to me awesome like Microsoft says, why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low...

There's only two scenarios:

1) They're over hyping a peripheral which they have perfect sense it won't affect significantly the console sales, hence the low estimations given for FY 2011;

2) They're wrong in their estimations.


I know which one I'm going to pick...


I am pretty sure MS doesn't have public sales estimates for next fiscal year.  If they can maintain peak year sales of 10-11ish MM for another couple of years that has to be a big win for them.  If they do that and NATAL works as promised, then there will probably be close to 40 million NATALs out there in a couple of years.

The sales estimation are posted here on vgchartz, I'm just too lazy to search it now, it is about 8 million.

Sorry if I'm mistaken but I'm almost sure, it was a thread by TheSource.



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Seece on 26 May 2010
Bamboleo said:
I wonder if Natal is going to me awesome like Microsoft says, why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low...

There's only two scenarios:

1) They're over hyping a peripheral which they have perfect sense it won't affect significantly the console sales, hence the low estimations given for FY 2011;

2) They're wrong in their estimations.


I know which one I'm going to pick...

"why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low..."

Why don't you link to these sales estimations, because AFAIK Microsoft don't EVER give sales forecasts like Sony and Nintendo.



 

Seece on 26 May 2010
kowenicki said:
Seece said:
Bamboleo said:
I wonder if Natal is going to me awesome like Microsoft says, why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low...

There's only two scenarios:

1) They're over hyping a peripheral which they have perfect sense it won't affect significantly the console sales, hence the low estimations given for FY 2011;

2) They're wrong in their estimations.


I know which one I'm going to pick...

"why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low..."

Why don't you link to these sales estimations, because AFAIK Microsoft don't EVER give sales forecasts like Sony and Nintendo.

correct.

He is probably referring to the frankly negative view that The Source has.... 

 

Probably.

OT: Bach sounds like a great guy, I'm sure he'll be sad to leave. They really do believe Natal is going to be big. Great stuff!



 

Bamboleo on 26 May 2010
kowenicki said:
Seece said:
Bamboleo said:
I wonder if Natal is going to me awesome like Microsoft says, why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low...

There's only two scenarios:

1) They're over hyping a peripheral which they have perfect sense it won't affect significantly the console sales, hence the low estimations given for FY 2011;

2) They're wrong in their estimations.


I know which one I'm going to pick...

"why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low..."

Why don't you link to these sales estimations, because AFAIK Microsoft don't EVER give sales forecasts like Sony and Nintendo.

correct.

He is probably referring to the frankly negative view that The Source has....

 

The "frankly negative" view The Source has is quite accurate actually. But yeah, my previous post is pointless if Microsoft didn't released at all any sales estimations.



Seece on 26 May 2010
Bamboleo said:
kowenicki said:
Seece said:
Bamboleo said:
I wonder if Natal is going to me awesome like Microsoft says, why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low...

There's only two scenarios:

1) They're over hyping a peripheral which they have perfect sense it won't affect significantly the console sales, hence the low estimations given for FY 2011;

2) They're wrong in their estimations.


I know which one I'm going to pick...

"why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low..."

Why don't you link to these sales estimations, because AFAIK Microsoft don't EVER give sales forecasts like Sony and Nintendo.

correct.

He is probably referring to the frankly negative view that The Source has....

 

The "frankly negative" view The Source has is quite accurate actually. But yeah, my previous post is pointless if Microsoft didn't released at all any sales estimations.

You only think that because it's painted in your favour. How can it be accurate when it hasn't even come true either way yet?

He completly got the PS3 slim launch wrong.

Your post was pointless in the first place, you're only in here to cause trouble.



 

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disolitude on 26 May 2010

Thats nice Robbie, but 360 is quite dated tech wise... As is the PS3 due to the 7900 series video chip inside and 256 mb of dedicated video ram.

So I expect a new 360 in 2012 as most people here...PS3 could be 2013-2014, depending how profitable Sony gets.



Bamboleo on 26 May 2010
Seece said:
Bamboleo said:
kowenicki said:
Seece said:
Bamboleo said:
I wonder if Natal is going to me awesome like Microsoft says, why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low...

There's only two scenarios:

1) They're over hyping a peripheral which they have perfect sense it won't affect significantly the console sales, hence the low estimations given for FY 2011;

2) They're wrong in their estimations.


I know which one I'm going to pick...

"why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low..."

Why don't you link to these sales estimations, because AFAIK Microsoft don't EVER give sales forecasts like Sony and Nintendo.

correct.

He is probably referring to the frankly negative view that The Source has....

 

The "frankly negative" view The Source has is quite accurate actually. But yeah, my previous post is pointless if Microsoft didn't released at all any sales estimations.

You only think that because it's painted in your favour. How can it be accurate when it hasn't even come true either way yet?

He completly got the PS3 slim launch wrong.

Your post was pointless in the first place, you're only in here to cause trouble.

You only think he isn't accurate because it's painted against your favour.

If you take a look at prediction news by Jacob you can see that he's spot on on many software and hardware estimations. Sure he can be wrong in some cases, but overall Jacob is a very good backyard analist, way better than some professionals that keep being quoted on the internets.

 

And the only one coming here to cause trouble is you boy, don't start by flamming me please.



Seece on 26 May 2010
Bamboleo said:
Seece said:
Bamboleo said:
kowenicki said:
Seece said:
Bamboleo said:
I wonder if Natal is going to me awesome like Microsoft says, why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low...

There's only two scenarios:

1) They're over hyping a peripheral which they have perfect sense it won't affect significantly the console sales, hence the low estimations given for FY 2011;

2) They're wrong in their estimations.


I know which one I'm going to pick...

"why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low..."

Why don't you link to these sales estimations, because AFAIK Microsoft don't EVER give sales forecasts like Sony and Nintendo.

correct.

He is probably referring to the frankly negative view that The Source has....

 

The "frankly negative" view The Source has is quite accurate actually. But yeah, my previous post is pointless if Microsoft didn't released at all any sales estimations.

You only think that because it's painted in your favour. How can it be accurate when it hasn't even come true either way yet?

He completly got the PS3 slim launch wrong.

Your post was pointless in the first place, you're only in here to cause trouble.

You only think he isn't accurate because it's painted against your favour.

If you take a look at prediction news by Jacob you can see that he's spot on on many software and hardware estimations. Sure he can be wrong in some cases, but overall Jacob is a very good backyard analist, way better than some professionals that keep being quoted on the internets.

 

And the only one coming here to cause trouble is you boy, don't start by flamming me please.

Nah, I don't think he's accurate because he's rarely positive about the PS3 or 360, was way off on the slim, and is 50/50 on Japan preview.

Why would I come into a natal thread to cause trouble, I wouldn't. You're the one trying to derail the thread. And nowhere did I flame you, so if you really want to try and rile me up you're going to have to try MUCH much harder. Just keep on, you'll be banned pretty soon.




 

Garnett on 26 May 2010
scottie said:
I've said this a thousand times. The console manufacturer does not decide the console's lifespan, the consumer does


They are acting like Natal is guaranteed to be the next big thing, if it flops then the only thing left is a price drop.



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Bamboleo on 26 May 2010
Seece said:
Bamboleo said:
Seece said:
Bamboleo said:
kowenicki said:
Seece said:
Bamboleo said:
I wonder if Natal is going to me awesome like Microsoft says, why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low...

There's only two scenarios:

1) They're over hyping a peripheral which they have perfect sense it won't affect significantly the console sales, hence the low estimations given for FY 2011;

2) They're wrong in their estimations.


I know which one I'm going to pick...

"why does the sales estimations for this fiscal year are so low..."

Why don't you link to these sales estimations, because AFAIK Microsoft don't EVER give sales forecasts like Sony and Nintendo.

correct.

He is probably referring to the frankly negative view that The Source has....

 

The "frankly negative" view The Source has is quite accurate actually. But yeah, my previous post is pointless if Microsoft didn't released at all any sales estimations.

You only think that because it's painted in your favour. How can it be accurate when it hasn't even come true either way yet?

He completly got the PS3 slim launch wrong.

Your post was pointless in the first place, you're only in here to cause trouble.

You only think he isn't accurate because it's painted against your favour.

If you take a look at prediction news by Jacob you can see that he's spot on on many software and hardware estimations. Sure he can be wrong in some cases, but overall Jacob is a very good backyard analist, way better than some professionals that keep being quoted on the internets.

 

And the only one coming here to cause trouble is you boy, don't start by flamming me please.

Nah, I don't think he's accurate because he's rarely positive about the PS3 or 360, was way off on the slim, and is 50/50 on Japan preview.

Why would I come into a natal thread to cause trouble, I wouldn't. You're the one trying to derail the thread. And nowhere did I flame you, so if you really want to try and rile me up you're going to have to try MUCH much harder. Just keep on, you'll be banned pretty soon.

I think he's quite accurate, he's like 80% accurate on the stuff he writes.

And you derailing the thread much more than me, I just posted sales predictions and linked them to the article. At this pace you're the one that will be banned very soon, judging by my personal experience.