Why do people think the 360 is vulnerable in sales?

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Everstar said:

Jo21 said:
demand for the ps3 is greater.

and at a bigger price ps3 have been outselling the ps3 worldwide by 1.5 millions the whole year.

even at a 200$ price difference the ps3 still giving a good fight.

360 is selling better but the ps3 had a bigger jump in sales.

so a small pricecut would give a bigger effect to the ps3 than the 360.

Are you kidding me? How can the demand for the PS3 be greater then the 360 if its selling less then 360. BTW the 360 has been having shortages in Japan FFs thats crazy. That just goes to show 360 is in higher demand...

 

Don't take this the wrong way - but from your posts I'm not sure you're understanding the usage of demand in the arguement that PS3 has more demand than 360.

If you look at sales the PS3 has essentially matched the 360 since launch (I mean each of their launches time adjusted) and always at a higher price.  Standard price elasticity would therefore indicate that if they were the same price the demand for the PS3 would be much higher.

As an example take this weeks Others numbers.  360 sold a little more than PS3.  Now it 360 was the same price as PS3 would it have sold as much as it did?  No.  Or if PS3 was the same price as 360 would it have sold much more?  Yes.

This isn't saying 360 doesn't have good demand, or isn't growing year on year - because it is.  But the data clearly shows that, at the same price point, the PS3 would outsell 360 by a fair amount WW, which means the underlying demand for PS3 is higher than 360.

BTW this also indicates the percieved value of the 360 (at least currently) is less than PS3 WW as the 360 needs to be less expensive than PS3 to match/exceed its sales.

Personally I'd love to see a split of 360 sales by SKU (and PS3) to really see where the demand is and at what price point.