The Official Second Annual *H.Y.P.E.* Thread

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seece said:

Sqrl said:

seece said:

 

I wasn't mocking you just laughing at how things turned out and how you posted that at the same time the data came out.

I'll take your word for it.

Anyways I posted that on 11/29/08, at 22:49, the data was posted 30th Nov 2008, at 20:11.  Nearly 24 hours later, plus it was just a question anyways, not a statement.

The 360 was the only one of the 3 that looks to have achieved the mark, thats a good thing for the 360, not a bad thing =)

 

Sorry I only looked at the time of your post not the date. The PS3's sales are nothing to be sniffed at, it should do 370K+ beating its sales for the same week last year. Thats pretty good going for Sony to do that with a high priced console in the current econmic mess we are in.

 

Actually I'm pretty dissapointed with the PS3 sales from BF, I think the 360 may be running away with this if we don't see some major ass-kicking in EU from the PS3 and pronto.  Put simply the 360 has done a little better than I thought it would, but the PS3 has done much worse than probably anyone thought it would, up to this point it was reversable but black friday is somewhat of a trend-setting thing, this bodes very badly for the PS3 and very good for the Wii/360 for the rest of the holidays. 

I'll wait for final numbers to call it official but that looks to be the case.

edit: I wanted to clarify a bit...

The problem the PS3 has is that even though YoY on a weekly basis it's up, it's still way behind where the other 2 consoles are in terms of growth.  This most likely means that there are simply more consumers this year but that the PS3 is getting a smaller share.  So an increase in RAW units definitely, but a decrease in market share as well.

Last year during Wk 5 the 360, PS3, and Wii sold 232k, 152k, and 332k respectively in NA.  The prelim data is showing around ~500k plus, ~225k, and ~900k respectively which represents a 115% plus, 48%, and  171% increase respectively. 

In effect last year this week the PS3 was 21% of the market, but this year they are only ~14% of the market, which , using the exact figures, translates to 34.8% of their market share evaporating YoY.