Why do people have such short attention spans?

[Oyvoyvoyv]

Sullla said:

Oyvoyvoyv said:

How much did Ps3 win with weekly in those 7 months? Let's have a look.

Week ending 1st March to week ending 4th October

Ps3: 5362K

X360: 4539K

Difference: 823K. Over 30 weeks: 27.4K weekly. In %, the Ps3 sold ~ 18% more than the 360.

Exactly! The biggest difference is that even when the 360 was "doomed", it was only being outsold by PS3 by roughly 20-30k units per week. Anyone who took the time to run the numbers could see that it wouldn't be passed until well into 2009, at the earliest. And that was assuming no response from Microsoft, which was rather silly.

Sony really is in trouble now, for two reasons: their financial situation prevents them from aggressively cutting the price, and their exclusive games don't seem to be attracting the same degree of interest as Microsoft (Gears 2) and Nintendo (everything first-party).

If your console is the most expensive, and you don't have any "killer" exclusive games at the moment, you're in trouble.

 

 

 There is another big problem too. Sony might still be worse set for a price-cut than Microsoft.

Now, I am approaching something I am new to, and haven't learnt anything about except for by VGChartz posts, so I may have some huge flaws here. If you find them, please tell me.

 

Assuming Microsoft and Sony both went even with consoles sold (initially, excluding software). This isn't really important to the analysis. It should be noted that Sony probably lost more than Microsoft before price cut/economy though.

PS: I am operating in Euros, but the same is the case for Americas.

 

X360 costs 199/249/299 euros.

Ps3 costs  349 euros

 

Microsoft cuts price by 50 on all SKUs, which means that they lose 50 euros pr console sold (before software).

Yen strengthens between 25 and 35% over Dollar, Pound and Euro. Dollar stays pretty equal with Pund/Euro. This means that Sony gets in 25-35% less pr Ps3 sold in revenue.

This means that Sony, has in reality made a 100 euro price cut, bigger than the 360.

It is really just a 90 euro cut though, as Ps3 sells about 1/10 of its total in Japan, in which the yen changes doesn't matter for them.

 

So, even though Microsoft dropped their price, they are still better set for a new price-cut than Sony is.