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Forums - Sales Discussion - Worldwide UP - August 27, 2011

ethomaz said:
Shinobi-san said:
Colocho said:
Can someone please explain to me why, even though, the PS3 has consistently outsold the Xbox for the past 3 months (worldwide), the gap on the home page between the 2 consoles remains at 3.4m / 3.3m?? In the past two weeks alone the gap should of shrunk by at least 100K... Am I the only one who is puzzled by this???


In addition to what others have said, adjustments are also made weekly to try and get even more accurate numbers :) And from some of the tracking done by members, ps3 has been adjusted down quite a bit over the weeks, other consoles too but to a lesser extent (not terribly sure about this).

Anyways dissapointed with 3ds numbers i wanted it to stay around the 300k mark :( Hopefully it wont fall to low in the following weeks and stay atleast around the 250k mark which falls in line with my predictions :)

I guess the real reason was PS3 just outsold 360 by 10-20k per week... at this rate was needed 7-8 weeks (almost 2 months) to change from .2m to .3m... so inthe last three/four months PS3 closed the GAP from 3.4m to 3.2m.

Nos the GAP is decreasing a lot faster... 50-80k per week.

Ethomaz i think i was talking about you when i said "tracking done by members" :D thanx for always tracking the adjustments!



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Great week for 3DS and PS3 :D



nice job for the 3ds and ps3, well done.



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JackyGoal said:
I'm still thinking that if the x360 gets a pricecut @ or before TGS then Sony will lower the PS3-price again with $50,= / € 50,=.
I'm hoping they will anyhow just to see sales explode. :P


Hey friend! Nice to see you posting more :)

I dont think Sony will be in the position to cut again by $50...i think Sony cuts prices when they can and also when its needed. Whereas MS can pretty much cut whenever they like so to speak. MS can afford to play the price game, Sony on the other hand are not in the same position. And i think weve seen that, Sony are running the race at their speed, and i dont think its because they want to but rather because they forced to. Another thing, and this is just a gues, but a price cut that comes soon after a previous price cut is a bad sign to investors...and can also be seen as a sign of desperation which i think they will want to avoid.

If i was Sony id take a lesser market share for increased profits at this point in the gen. Irrespective of what the competition (unless the competition is doing something amazing which they not).

I agree with you on one thing though, if they do cut the price again this year, say with uncharted 3 release then yeah SALES EXPLOSION :D



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gustave154 said:
PSP software sales are really good...
and there are still great games coming out for it (Type 0, digimon, yakuza)
sigh... wish i learned japanese...

It was wrong... 300k is from PS3 software sales.

Edit - It's corrected already.

PS3: 1,503,667    (+74%)
PSP: 533,141    (+29%)



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pretty good PS3 and 3DS numbers, but lets see if the PS3 can keep this up



good sales for Deus Ex.



Patchner will be right. If MS doesn't price cut, PS3 will outsell 360 in the holidays.

I expect PS3 sales to continue following the Wii trend and drop in sales next week (despite whatever boost Madden brings). PS3's growth is slowing down faster then Wii's and it had Monster Hunter to help it a bit in Japan. I feel this is the temporary PS3 peak, and sales will drop 10% next week (not 20% because of Madden).

360 I expect to be level next week, or maybe a small 5% boost due to madden.

3DS will remain above 200k, but might drop another 20%. I hope it stabilizes high.

The rest, no major changes.

I hope MS is smart and cuts the 360's price soon. I think they will cut it, but they are just waiting for the holidays to start.



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Troll_Whisperer said:
CGI-Quality said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
CGI-Quality said:

Nothing more than a hunch (though as I said, not by much - give ore take 2-5k). In 2009, if I remember correctly, it stayed up in EMEAA for 2 or 3 weeks after the initial cut week. Could be different this time, but it's not out of the question.

How else do people think it will maintain a 200k result until the holidays? :P

I didn't think it would, I thought it would go down to 170,000 and start climbing again as the holiday season approaches.

But I certainly hope you're right.

September is a tricky month. It could very well go down next week, but the following week increase again (aided by the cut this particular time).

One thing's for sure, it's about to have a strong holiday in EMEAA and somewhat in Japan. The Americas it'll do good, but be in third place next to both the 360 & Wii.

Well, I agree with that.

360 value add bundles will keep sales going. It's harder to get attention for value add bundles than straight price cuts for the off the street buyer; especially if the value add bundle doesn't necessarily have the games the buyer really wants. But people do like getting free games with their consoles.

Still, only a price cut larger than PS3's in EMEAA could get 360 ahed of PS3 across these markets, and even then it would be close.

It will be interesting to see the effects of games like Gears of War 3. I can see Gears giving 360 a substantial one week boost but not much beyond that. It will be hard to gauge because the holiday rise will be in operation too.

Good to see PS3 crack 200K. Very happy to see UC2 get a nice boost. Sets things up nicely for UC3 which seems to be highly anticipated by the gaming media. I hope UC3 does similar numbers to Gears 3 lifetime. inFamous 2 deserves better, but I'm happy that it's trundling along and making it's way to 1 million before year's end.

Great opening for DX:HR. Are we going to see MH3PHDV get a WW release?



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I think PS3 actually has a slight hope of selling more than the 3DS next week.



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !