| mrstickball said: And exactly what will $700 USD buy you if you wanted a rig to play Crysis on reccomended settings? IMO, with the X360 out there, there is no need for PC gaming outside of RTSes, Sims and Strategy gaming. I switched to X360 near entirely because I got sick of always upgrading my rig. How is the PC Bioshock version better? 2 installs, no true widescreen support, and general backlash against T2 that the PC version didn't have the full support like the X360 version did? Either way, a 100% increase @ gamestop for the X360 is pretty good. If those numbers were true, that'd mean the X360 is actually selling somewhere in the area of 80,000-90,000 per week in the US and Canada (average of 45,750 per week last month according to NPD. Man, 90k a week for X360 right now would be ungodly. Expecially with the fact that the game lineup should be strong enough to keep those levels up atleast for awhile. At 90k/wk right now, can you imagine what H3 week will be like? It could be upto 200k or more for H3 week! Either way, I am shocked that GS's sales for the X360 are up 100%. For a pathetic $50 drop, that's pretty crazy - I wonder what the sales would be like if they dropped it $100? |
You forgot a computer being needed for FPS'. At least for those who like to have good controls with them. I'd also mention 3RRoD but we all know about that. At any rate I'll stick with PC gaming thank you.
I don't think a similar increase for the 360 as the PS3 with a smaller price cut is that surprising. Often as a price for a product rises the demand drops slowly until a certain price is reached at which demand collapses before continuing to slowly fall. I have no idea where those prices are for video game systems but I would suspect the kink occurrs is somewhere between $300-400. If it is say $360 then that would be how the 360 could get the same boost from a $50 price cut as the PS3's $100 pricecut. I'm not saying that is what happened just that as a possibility it means it isn't surprising.
Also looking at past price cut effects it looks like 50-100% increase is pretty common whether the cut was from $200-150 or $300-200 or $180-150. We'll see if GS' experience is typical in a month. Just because it matched the mean value last time doesn't mean it will again. It could, we'll have to wait and see. One last note of caution is what was the base week that from which they saw a doubling? Sales tend to fall off the week(s) before a price cut so it would be less impressive if that is the base. Or is it the average from the previous month or quarter or this time last year? Again and again we'll see in time.
