Predictions: PS3 console sales with first full week of $100 price cut?

[thx1139]

blazinhead89 said:

thx1139 said:
Well last $100 price drop caused PS3 to go from 160K worldwide to 230K worldwide. Use that as your guide and likely PS3 sales after $100 price drop will be sub 250K. That last drop was November 2007.

 

That really isn't a guide though. As the price gets lower, the PS3 gets more potential sales. For example. People may be waiting for a 250$ PS3. Some people may be willing to pay 299$. Not the 250$ Target audience though. But when PS3 gets to 250$ , both the 250$ and 299$ Target audience will pick a PS3 up.

Yes and people were waiting for a $399 PS3 when Sony dropped it $100 before.  Last week the PS3 sold 130K.  Show many any time that a consoles sales tripled because of a $100 price drop.  Even when the PS2 dropped from $300 to $200 the sales jumped from 175K to 320K. It was at 240K a couple weeks before the price drop so looks like rumours of price drop caused sales to slow until the price drop happened.  Maybe that is how Sony can get a triple boost. They can announce a November price drop in September to get a huge boost in November.