The Offical March NPD Thread (Data in 4 hours)

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darthdevidem01 said:

NJ5 said:

SOLIDSNAKE08 said:
i see why sony is in no hurry to cut the ps3 price. they should just wait till the end of the year now and do a $100 drop then. xbox 360 is only outselling it by 25-30k per week which really is fuck all when you look at the price difference and 3 ps3 games in the top 10 also which means its showing growth.

25-30k per week is 1.3-1.6 million per year before even accounting for the holiday boost...

 

yeah but do you really think SONY thinks NA can be won over

NA is the only region for PS3 which is lost

EU PS3 will take over easily.....Japan it has

but NA is lost....and has been since 2007 in fact

 

Personally i think PS3 has lost here in Europe too.

People don't associate the PS3 as something "cool" here. Image has so much to do with sales. Wii has the "cool" image and is why it is selling like hot cakes. The 360 has the "gamer" image. If i compare my friends who have been gamers since the NES era very few have PS3's. I think that is a trend that will remain. Europe and NA are very similar in terms of what games we like.

If you look at figures just for the 4 months here in UK you see PS3 sold just 190k where as 360 sold 317k. If you compare that to same period last year PS3 sold 283k while 360 sold 241k. Meaning year over year here in UK PS3 dropped sales by 32% while 360 grew by  31%.

A price drop really would help the PS3 to sell more but for it to increase by 32% just to get back on par with last years sales will need a massive price cut.

And basically i just can't see that happening.