Pristine20 said:
valen200 said:
Pristine20 said:
Hawkeye said:
People buy HDTVs becuase they need a new TV and HDTV is all that is available. If people mainly cared about HD, 720P HDTVs wouldn't sell. |
Why they're selling isn't important. The point is that they're selling period. Most people are resistant to change and would not budge except they had no choice. Then when they change, they realize that it isn't all that bad. Many technological movements are like this.
Seriously, many of you are just picking at straws to thow one more bone at the article or the ps3 that it's getting pathetic.
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Umm, why and how they are selling s very important. A person who wants the sleek look of a flatscreen is a different customer than someone who wants the clearest picture. It is sales 101. They will both have a HDTV, but one is more likely to know how to harness the tv's abilities than the other. A customer who cares about harnessing Hd is more likely to want a 360/ps3/blue-ray/dvd upconverter/etc. than someone who thinks their 20 year old bedroom set is just fine.
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In the context of this discussion, they're not. No one cares who is buying the wii because it can fit in their living room space vs those who want to play wii fit. What's relevant to the article is that the wii is the best selling console right now. Please focus on the main topic at hand and don't join others who seem hell bent on nitpicking insignificant portions of the article because it presents an opposite viewpoint of the ps3 than we've become accustomed to reading.
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let's see.. first.... I don't remember bringing up the wii and I am not nitpicking. I work in retail. I sell digital cameras and have spent a great deal of time selling new technology to people who are afraid of it. I also was in electronics and have sold many tvs to peoples for many reasons. To say that there is no physcology in sales, or that overall sales trends are not impacted by buyer rationale is at best uninformed. Period. Having more HD tvs in circulation does not help the ps3 unless people really want blu-ray and 1080p. A point in the article was that people wanted hd tv and cared about. That is part of the topic.
second... I don't remember weighing in on anything beyond tv sales. deciding what opinion I have or what group I belong to for me when I have not taken a larger stance is perhaps arrogant. I was happy that we sold all of our Wii consoles on black friday. I was very disapointed that the only console we did not sell through was the Ps3.
