PS3 in North America over the next few weeks

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Bodhesatva said:

Celb said:
Since weekly numbers are way to unreliable. I'll go with monthly but that really depends on what July numbers are.

Aug should match July numbers, $499 all month not half of it. After that sales probably increase each month due to constant software and its marketing. As long as $499 Ps3 stock remains sales will climb.

Ps3 is set for a huge ass October

Folklore
HSG5
Ratchet and Clank
Home
GTA4
CoD4 Moder warfare
Need for Speer pro street.

any one wanna bet that PS3 will surpass 400k sold in USA in october ?

I will take that bet. I bet the PS3 will not sell more than 400k units in October.

I'm 100% in this with Bod.

Directly AFTER the price cut - the PS3 manages to sell 40k in a week. And that won't last. And you think it will sell 100k+/week for FOUR weeks straight?

I'll be honestly surprised if it gets to 200k.

People who WANT PS3 games - ALREADY HAVE A PS3. There will be about 2m PS3's in the US by the time those games hit.

And...

a) Forklore - better hope it has more impact than it did in Japan.

b) HSG5 - has this ever been a hardware pusher - in the US?? The Wii now owns the golf genre.

c) GTA, CoD, NFS - all cross platform titles. MS will push/promote the hell out of GTA. I expect 1/3rd-1/4th of sales to be for the PS3. People who buy a console for the game - will primarily buy a 360 (cheaper). And this is roughly when the 360 gets a surprise price cut - along with Halo3 release.

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That leaves HOME & R&C. I'll wait for reviews on R&C, but initial impressions show it to be a very pretty PS2 -port title. As for HOME... if people want to buy a PS3 to "play" HOME - good luck to them ;)

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So I'll say it again - 200k for October - not 400k. The "price cut" may even have worn off by then, might be back to $599 bundles...