Famitsu sales 6/22 - 6/28

[Ail]

saicho said:

Ail said:

kylohk said:
Which begs the question, how many price drops did the PS2 have in Japan by the same point in its life?

 

The install base isn't actually that high in Japan compared to what the PS2 did but the issue is that traditionnal gamers have mostly decided to stay away from that console and at this point I don't think anything Nintendo has in store will change that mentality.

Wii is mostly selling to non traditional gamers there. 

 

I don't think a price cut will bring Wii back to previous years levels either, it will help but I don't think it will help that much.

Wii is just not considered as an expensive console right now ( the way the PS3 is). Price isn't what is hurting sales, what the platform delivers isn't compelling to most buyers and more of the same ( ala WSR) isn't going to convince them to purchase a Wii if they haven't yet ( and I will make the case that the new Mario game won't move hardware that much, the only unknown really is MH3).

 

so you are saying a price cut for PS3 by Sony would have a bigger effect on sales than a price cut for Wii by Nintendo. Is that correct?

If the PS3 cut is meaningfull and happens before FFXIII most likely.

I'm not making this up either.

There is a general feeliing in the industry that the PS3 is too expensive ( every other week a retail or publisher exec says so) , that same feeling doesn't seem to be so widespread around the Wii....

 

Right now the PS3 is closer to the 500$ price pt than to the 250$ and that is not a good place to be at...