| Astrodust said: Is this a rumor or news or a Sony spin? |
It's likely news - about one week of sales after an announced price drop.
KruzeS said:
It's likely news - about one week of sales after an announced price drop. |
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/25138/PSP-to-hit-1m-UK-sales-in-2006
psp was the 2nd best selling console in UK in 2006.
with a price drop the increase in hardware sales can ofcourse surpass DS.
larry said:
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/25138/PSP-to-hit-1m-UK-sales-in-2006 psp was the 2nd best selling console in UK in 2006. with a price drop the increase in hardware sales can ofcourse surpass DS. |
| larry said: psp was the 2nd best selling console in UK in 2006. with a price drop the increase in hardware sales can ofcourse surpass DS. |
And what the hell does that have to do with anything I said?
I said a one week increase after an announced price drop is not enough to see a trend. Are you going to even try debating that?
That's unlikely, larry. The DS has a near 2:1 installed user base compared to the PSP in Europe (a bit less, hard to calculate). This would certainly help the PSP grow, but catching up to the DS at this point is very unlikely.
Again, this doesn't make the PSP bad. It's doing extremely well for itself. It has sold a ton of units, just not as many as the DS.
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albionus said:
It's not whether the PSP was 2nd (or 1st or whatever) last year, it's what is this 60% increase coming off of. The price cut was known in advance so have PSP sales been 40% lower last month as people waited for the price cut and now they shot up 60% all the way back to where they were 1 month ago? Or did sales stay the same and the 60% is above normal sales? Or given this is Sony did they simply increase PSP shipments to the UK by 60%? Without weekly or at least monthly sales data it's impossible to say what happened. Also, system sales always jump to some extent for a period after a price cut so we'll have to see how long it lasts before declaring things like the PSP can surpass the DS now. |
I think your analysis is fair, alb, but I think it misses the main point -- even with a 60 percent in sales, the PSP still would not catch the DS. With a near-exact 2:1 installed user base enjoyed by the DS over the PSP, the PSP would have to increase sales by over 100 percent and sustain that for a long period. 60 percent increased sales only decreases the rate at which DS is outselling it, it doesn't actually sell more PSPs than it does DSs.
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Let's not forget the Pokebomb is coming to Europe soon.
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