Locked: WoW, Sony are in real trouble

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Erik Aston on 30 July 2008

While Sony has fallen on rough times, WoW continues to be a cash cow.

"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.

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brute on 30 July 2008

btw why did you do two capital W's

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Kasz216 on 30 July 2008

Too bad the shortages won't be around for a while. If so i coulda bought a couple PS3s at gamestop today and made some bank.

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libellule on 30 July 2008

Spectrumglr said:

libellule said:
Come on, that was obviously not du to E3.

Look at Xbox360 numbers is PAL and see how they are low.

They are going back to the "pre-price cut" level (45k-50k).

Despite the FFXIII announcement ... and despite no shortage.

you can't compare sales in February/March vs sales in July...last year for instance sales dropped by 50%.

In 2008 sales in July are still higher than in february/march (and more than doubled compared to 2007): that's the price cut effect.

===> not sure.

I dont know what u can compare or not compare.

This is how I see the thing :

http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=&reg1=------&cons2=&reg2=------&cons3=X360&reg3=Total+Other&start=39089&end=39656

For the Xbox360 : there are 3 phase for 2008 so far :

- 2008 started higher than 2007 BEFORE the price cut (because of Xmas and the 2007 price cut+Halo3) : that we agree.

- Then sales go up even more WITH the price cut (the recent one)

- More recently, the sales are going back to their PRE-price cut level

==>>>>>>>>> The 2008 Price cut in PAL had only a temporary effect.

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flames_of on 30 July 2008

brute said:
btw why did you do two capital W's

Maybe to stand for...

World of Wowcraft?
Random guess as words like "of" not usually capitalized... I think...

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Smashchu2 on 30 July 2008

I'm thinking less supply constraints. The drop last week was only 19%. If this week has a small drop then I wouldn't put it major shortage.

I'd put it more to the same thing that happened to the 360. After Halo 3, there isn;t anything close by, so the system stalls. Of course, the 360 has been like this for a while, so a strong holiday may help.

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Munkeh111 on 30 July 2008

Sony has been a little silly announcing the new model so early, and it still meant to be like a month away, so they should have really sorted out the supply issues