amirnetz on 24 November 2008
| deathgod33 said: i dont understand for what reason 360 sold that much. black friday isnt here yet, and where well away from christmas. |
While I will not pretend to be a mass psychologist, I would venture the following explanation:
First, they hit the magical price point of $199. This is the "cheap enough" price point. The "impulse buy" point. $199 seems twice as cheap as $210. Crazy but true.
Second, the holiday season is full with casual buyers that are looking for a good, low risk bargin. They heard of the xbox and they see it is very cheap (see point 1) so they just buy it. They don't run spec comparisons. They don't care about BR. They are just out for a good safe bargin. Microsoft gives them exactly that.
Prediction made on 11/1/2008:
Q4 2008: 27M xbox LTD, 20M PS3 LTD . 2009 sales: 11M xbox, 9M PS3
