Who's right, Sony or VGC?

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Words Of Wisdom said:

TheSource said:

All this posturing seems a bit irrelevant anyway. PS3 is going to destroy 360 in Europe long term (i.e. if Sony can drop price sometime in the next six months). Its taken three years of games, two skus under the price of Wii (and 1/3 the price of PS3 i believe) for Microsoft to sell significantly more 360s than PS3s in Europe on a weekly basis.

It really doesn't matter what Microsoft has done to get its position in the market.  Adding that information in is an unnecessary qualifier.  The video game industry has a tendency to snowball (sales create sales).  Right now Microsoft just needs to get its system into the hands of as many people as possible and it doesn't matter what Microsoft is doing to get there.

As long as the 360 can retain a high value proposition, the PS3 won't be destroying anything.  As time goes by and more games come to the 360 that gets much easier.

I agree and disagree with you here; while the sheer saturation of 360's in the EU certainly can't hurt, video game sales have significantly less of a snowballing effect in Europe than they do in the U.S.  In the U.S. your average 360 owner has 10 games, while in Europe that number is around 3.  It seems that Europeans tend to buy their systems for one game, like a Fifa, Winning 11, or GTAiv.  As a consequence, they spend less time on their consoles in general, and proclivity of games the saturation loses some of their effects in creating momentum.