Holiday Projections Revisited

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amirnetz said:

FishyJoe said:

sweettoof said:

FishyJoe said:
I disagree as well. $400 will be a bitter pill to swallow for the holiday shopper, especially when sitting next to $200 candy.

 

candy that has no hard drive, no wifi, no blu ray and a chance of getting you sick (rrod), yea that sounds more like a lemon head to me than sweet candy.

Do you really think the holiday shopper really knows or cares about all that other stuff? You're seriously overestimating how much the average person actually knows or about things like hard drives or system power. As far as they are concerned, they both play the games and that's all that matter.

I'm not saying it doesn't matter at all, but in the eyes of a person who never reads a gaming magazine or website, those features are close to meaningless. They will see two boxes that play nearly all the same games, one for $199 and one for $399.

 

 

 ...And just as important, the sales clerck in the store will warmly recommend it, adding that the 360 is a great machine that runs virtually all the great games and have some great exclusives that the $399 machine doesn't have.

 

 

Uhm, and no sales clerk will say anything positive about the PS3?  And if it's a sales clerk, he will also mention everything that the 199 dollar machine doesn't have (since in your case he only talks about the "haves" of the 199 dollar machine).

And to pick up on Fishy's point: if most people don't know about or cares about that kind of stuff... Over here, the PS3 is now also being advertized on tv as a blu-ray player specifically, so it'll entice people that way too "since they won't know too much about it all".

 

The xbox will outsell it, but to suddenly go stating that it'll blow it out of the water because you're one or two weeks further.... It's not as if it's blowing the ps3 out of the water now.