| leo-j said: The ps3 is selling slower than last year? Really now, because vgchartz shows it selling around the same if not slightly better than last year.. |
The last couple of months it has been slower than last year, but we are talking shipments here.... last year the PS3 was still relatively new, it hadn't built up a full shop stock, particularly as the 40G had to be rolled out for Christmas too, which means shipments for Q3 were larger than they would have been without the price drop/40G.
Shipments for that period last year were 4.9 million.
Sales for Q3 by VGC are down slightly from last year (3.52 down to 3.13 million for the same period, and the next weeks will see them further apart) but as has been said here before, sales /= shipments..... after all Sony shipped 4.9 million last year but only saw 3.9 million sales.... usually shipments are overcompensated in Q3, but suffer in Q4 or Q1 because of it.
but what I am saying is Sony have less ability to overcompensate in Q3 because they don't have a big price cut and new model to convince shops to stock more, add that to the lower sales figures and the shipments for this year might not massively exceed the sales like thay did last year.... and if the sales stay low in January then shipments in Q4 are likely to fall short of the previous year too.
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Overall they will still exceed what they shipped last fiscal year (9.24 million) because they had a considerably better Q1 and 2. (Q1 and 2 last year suffered because Sony overshipped the PS3 for Q4 of the previous year, so there were way too many in stock and shipments almost came to a halt in Q1)
