NPD: Console Price Cuts Can Boost Sales 40-60 Percent

[bardicverse]

The Truth said:

bardicverse said:
@truth - reasonable numbers, I'd be a bit guarded on your holiday numbers, but time will tell. What did PS3 do for Nov and December last year? I'd expect similar numbers.

 

Just over 3M, so I personally am expecting a YOY increase of around 1.5M for the same period (price cut obviously, economy starting to pick up, new model, GT5, FF).

I think there would be something seriously wrong if it only matched last years numbers. PS3 got dominated last holiday, especially on Black Friday and in the Americas. Price Cut should do good things there. GT5 and FF will see Japan sales do well and Europe/Others is a mixture.

Im not too sure we can claim that the economy is picking up, an unexpected increase in unemployment happened last week, and consumer confidence is dropped lower.  I do expect the PS3 to do better, but I'd expect no more than 800k increase YOY.