FKNetwork on 19 August 2009
| puffy said: The PS3 Slim is mostly going to sell to people who were just waiting for a price drop. Anybody that was considering buying a PS3 but didn't want to wait just went out and bought an XBOX 360. With that in mind I think the 360 is going to begin to lose sales to the PS3 in the lead up to the holidays but the price drop isn't going to effect the Wii just as a cheaper 360 hasn't effected it. I think Nintendo and Microsoft may bleed market share in the next couple of months but Nintendo won't counter, as their sales are still going to rise as the holidays approach and Wii Sports Resort begins to move hardware. The most Nintendo will do this year is release a new colour system and have bundles. Microsoft I don't think will counter Sony at all. They have just dropped the Elite's price by $100 and they won't be able to lower the PS3's sales by dropping the price because a lot of people were waiting for the drop and so aren't going to consider the 360 anyway. Microsoft's best bet is to wait it out and cut the price next year in my opinion. |
Some very good points there puffy!
I do think Nintendo should lower the price though, Wii sales would go through the roof if they did, 360 could lower the price too but not sure if they need to yet, hard to tell at the moment...
