Xbox 360 is at a Mass Market Price -- But Are YOY Sales INCREASES enough?

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Slimebeast said:

darthdevidem01 said:

{credit to kowenicki for the data}

Compared to last year...

2008 week ending 5th Jan to week ending 9th Feb

Wii  1,909,368          47.4%

PS3  1,256,497         31.3%

360   854,869           21.3%

Total  4,020,734

 

2009 week ending 3rd Jan to week ending 7th Feb

Wii  2,733,445          52.8%    (up 824,077 or 43.2% on 2008)

PS3  1,051,797          20.3%    (down 204,700 or 16.3% on 2008)

360  1,395,980          26.9%    (up 541,111 or 63.3% on 2008)

Total  5,181,222        up 28.9%

 

So in a rising market the Wii is taking off, the 360 is follwing that market.

BUT what I am asking is 360 is up 500K in January.....however wii was up by more.

I am wondering whether this increase in sales i actually worth of taking note considering the xbox 360 is at a mass market price point but the wii increase still proves to be greater.

 

 You are silly.

How can a 63% YoY increase with a 25% price drop be anything but extremely impressive? Going by history of console price drops the X360 should have reached the mass market price earlier. At this point in time the PS2 had dropped to $179 already and was about to be dropped to $149 (in May 2004 - it's 4th year) - while the X360 still has a very popular $300 SKU beside the Arcade $200 one.

And yet the X360 is selling close to PS2 levels now. It's a huge success.

You are 100% correct but take this thread for what it is : another silly theory in the long line of silly theories (like comparing the price of the ps3 with that of the ....arcade xbox360 ) that have been created to give some kind of comfort to insecure sony fanboys .