selnor said:
You are completely missing the point. As a parent myself and not on that bad of an income (we actually have 2) I can tell you parents just will not pay that this christmas. Some will, but you should REALLY take this monetary crisis seriuosly. Banking has been changed forever by whats happened (and is still happening). LAst years christmas can in no way even remotely be looked at for predictions of this year. It's now a completely different ball game. I'm not talking about what games one console has or doesnt have. I'm talking as is the entire financial industry WW that this christmas all companies are expecting the worst sales for over 25 years. The higher priced items will be severely affected more. This years holiday sales are more about price than it is about games.
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Selnor... not to under-sell how bad things are, but this isn't the worst financial crisis in the past 30 years. 95% of mortgages are solvent... it's the darned leveraging of the 5% that's killing the financial institutions. My worry is over retirement funds and lack of consumer/investor confidence. Sometimes it seems like we're a bunch of sheep running to and fro at the smallest scare. Yeah, this is a big, bad problem, but we'll pull through in a few months. I'm just worried that people will panic and start to take the retail sector down as well. :-/
Sorry... had to get that off my chest.
OT: This year may be a struggle for all the consoles to even match last years sales, but you do have a point regarding the more expensive a console is, the harder the sale this year.
