BKK2 said:
ioi said:
BKK2 said:
ioi said:
@BKK2 - Uk saw the smallest boost back at the end of last year following the price cut since 360 sales were already so strong over here. 360 was all but dead everywhere outside of the UK this time last year.
I know that 360 is up YOY - our data shows that as does that graph posted from Nintendo's briefing - I haven't disputed that. 600k in 5 months would mean that 360 has been selling about 50% in the UK of what it has been selling in the US (with less than 20% of the population). Also sales always slow in April and May from Feb and March (back to Nintendo's graph).
We've already said that the DS figure could be as high as 550k if the rounding works in your favour but even then the 360 figure still seems unreasonable. |
With rounding it could be as low as 0.5m, NPD had X360 at 1.1m Feb-May, when June figures come in it will probably be ~1.3m (rounding FTW) which would be ~40% of lowest possible UK number. Despite having a population 20% the size of America, UK sold 27% of US hardware last year (9.3m Vs 34.7m), X360 is priced far more competitively in UK (even cheaper than Wii) than US, so I don't see why it's illogical that UK X360 sales can outperform X360 US sales.
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Lol, cherry picking for the win!
Yes in the extreme case, we could have 40% of US sales vs 27% for total hardware sold. DS is much bigger in the UK than US as is PS3 so that skews the figure a fair bit for the 27%. A more realistic comparison would be the 50% I first posted (taking 600k as everyone is assuming) vs 22-23% for the general UK:US Xbox ratio we have seen in previous years. Selling twice as fast as it "should be" is unreasonable to me, even given the price point (and arcades are cheaper than Wiis in America as well).
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No "cherry picking" going on, and no "extreme cases" either. I actually rounded the number in your favour (38% Vs 40%). As for "taking 600k as everyone is assuming",it's been pointed out several times why these assumptions are flawed, but if you want to base your assumptions off of fanboy expectations go ahead. This will be the last post I make on this site, so I apologise in advance for not replying to your rebuttle.
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Hold up, Don't take that far. We need you in this site, you are a great contributor. You have to understand, ioi is a little protective of this because that's what he does for a living now. There is some major adjustments to be made, problem is, the numbers don't seemed right at all.
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