Australia & New Zealand Hardware

How is it that on the week 360s releases in these 2 countries PS3 goes up by a huge 27% and 360 drops by 1% (odd that PS2 went up by 16 % as well, though that's only and extra 42 actual consoles sold, so "normal" week on week sales fluctuations would account for that, it'll be down 16% in the next chart probably).

In the grand scheme of the PS360 battle for sales 600 consoles is nothing, but it just doesn't read right given the sales conditions that existed last week. The only PS3 boosting potential I knew about was a JB HiFi 40" Bravia + PS3 deal for about $100 less than the normal retail price if you bough the 2 separately; perhaps a lot of people went for that deal (if it was available in Aussie too).

360s was available for 2 days of WE 10 July, perhaps phat clearance sale sated most of the immediate 360 apetite, and we'll see it climb in the next week or 2.

As one of the stronger 360 markets in EMEAA (probably only behind UK in terms of market share) no 2-day boost seems very odd. Maybe there was a 2-day boost, but the previous 5 days might have been really down, thereby masking the 2-day boost?

I was wondering about this myself....maybe people in those countries just don't care about the 360.

Aren't we significantly undertracking everything down there? There was a thread for gfk sales for both regions a while ago. At the time I thought that our numbers only varied slightly from gfk because I thought that our Australia was just Australia. I'll see if I can find it.

Didnt Microsoft said months ago that Xbox 360 has sold over 1 Milions in Australia alone ? i thought so.

I found it. Yeah, we are definitely undertracking everything except arguably DS and Wii down here. If MS said they sold a million in both combined it was probably shipped but it would still be slightly undertracked. PS2 undertracked by over 500k, ouch.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=107096

Australia, end of 2009:

 New Zealand, end of 2009:

no ms stated they had sold them, people buying them, not shipped. Why is it sony is sold and ms is shipped maybe just maybe they are both sold in some instances. NONE THE LESS! back to the point.

PS3 is starting to not have shite deals in australia and 499 for the 120gb and 588 with the ps3 and playtv. XboxS is 449... absolute stupidity. Should be cheaper, the retail leaders are asking Sony AND Microsoft why, Hell we FINALLY got a price drop from 399 -> 299 about 6 months ago with the wii.

Aus pricing is not in relation to the dollar, we are something close to 80-90 us cents. Things need to even up, that is why wii did apparently. So a new console is not going to help sell the console if the old console before it got dropped ridiculously was 349, so the new one is more expensive then the old one.... doesnt make sense to me.

That's how much 360s is here in NZ dollars! $499 with any 360 Game in Dick Smiths. $449 NZ (once you take off the GST) is less than the US price in US dollar terms.

not with the aus conversion though, the conversion between aus - nz is about the same as aus - us, yet we get jipped :(

PS i work for dickies in aus :D