ioi said there was a high amount of existing PS3 owners (especially in Japan) upgrading their old PS3s to the new model PS3 Slim. Old PS3s were traded-in for new PS3 Slims. The PS3 Slim launch started off with a high first week number but will drop to around half of the 550k in the second week my guess is 300k for next weeks sales worldwide. Hardcore console owners tend to upgrade their systems to the newest model revision. PS3 Slim has 120GB and is supposed to be better than the older PS3 phat models.
Delayed PS3 purchases due to low sales in most of the weeks of this year - they waited for the PS3 Slim and the $299. The PS3 with $299 price was rumoured at the start of this year and news spreads fast. It would not surprise me that a lot of the PS3 Slims weekly sales was from delayed PS3 sales. Three weeks the PS3 price cut has been announced and that is three weeks of people buying PS3 Slims in advance creating a boost in PS3 Slim sales.
The outlay of PS3 Slim is $300 around the price of 5 games so more people bought PS3 Slim instead of buying games. More Blu-Rays could have been bought instead of PS3 games.
No new games released except for Batman:AA. The new big games of 2009 are soon to be released and people are waiting for them to arrive instead of buying the available PS3 games.
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