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deadhorse on 19 July 2007
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leo-j said:
deadhorse said:

I think it's safe to call the PS3 price cut a failure.  It's even lower than I predicted.  I predicted the Wii would only outsell the PS3 2 to 1 worldwide this week, it outsold it 3 to 1.  The PS3 also had all that positive publicity from E3.  I've seen endless posts on other PS3 boards saying that all the PS3 needed was a price cut and a few AAA games to dominate the market.  Well, it got a price cut and one AAA game(Ninja Gaiden Sigma) which had dissapointing sales.  

Anyway, on to my next prediction.  I predict Lair will sell less than 50,000 first week and that we'll see very little noticeable increase in sales of the PS3.  The anticipation of the game seems to be even less than NGS:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2748

Still, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it will outsell NGS, but not by much.

The next big thing to help the PS3 is the release of Warhawk on August 28.   I say it will sell much better and the PS3 sales will get a significant boost, but with the Wii outselling the PS3 3 to 1 even after a price cut it's not going to make a big difference in the long run.  I should mention that Metroid Prime 3 is being released the day before.  Based on board activity the anticipation for this game is several times more than Warhawk.

The ps3 only had a price cut in North america not World wide, just to clear that out, its not a failure since it outsold the x360 Worldwide even at its strongest area in the U.S.


I know it was NA only, I still expected it to double sales worldwide, which would mean, what, 2.5 times the sales in NA?  The NA PS2 price cut did just that.