Eurogamer: The recession will hit the Wii first.

[Squilliam]

NJ5 said:

Squilliam said:

Wouldn't the PS3 be the canary? If people are still buying consoles, but substituting the more expensive PS3s for the less expensive Xbox 360s and Wiis it shows that is the first stage of being effected by the crisis of credit? Its the first console which has shown any significant changes due to the recession.

 

The thing is, we don't really know how many people would have chosen the 360 anyway even if the recession hadn't hit. It's not that clear cut.

 

Isn't the first step in analysis finding where the data correlates so that further analysis can find the causation of the trends?

The PS3 sales are a point of interest, and so are the Xbox 360 sales. We can see with the Xbox 360 SKU sales that people are substituting the less expensive Arcade SKUs for the more expensive Premium SKUs so their price sensitivy could be said to have markedly increased.