SONY hw sales moved a lot of software

[dharh]

Buzzi said:

dharh said:

Buzzi said:

dharh said:
You have to consider that some of the hardware sold was to previous customers. About 400,000 units above the previous week. Lets say half of those were old owners, so 200,000 new PS3 owners on average bought 1 game (200,000) which happens to be the bump in software from the previous week.

Obviously this is a weak guestimate.

ioi said 30-40% only in Japan and has been attacked by a lot of people, you now say 50% worldwide. Prepare for a lot of criticism against you! 15-20% worldwide sound right to me.

Did you read the part where I said it was a weak guestimate? Its a baseline. You could read my guess as a worse case scenario, ioi's estimate as maybe a mid to best case scenario (despite what people hope, there _were_ people who traded in their fats for slims).

I agree with you (not on the numbers but as you said it's just an estimate, like mine), but there's a lot of people who think that no one old PS3 owner would buy the Slim because it has not BC, only 2 USBs and so on, while we know that the Slim model is a way in which sony sells HW to both new customers and old customers, not like the Arcade--> Pro--> Elite does (maybe that works just for a small percentage of customers).

Depends on which version of the fat.  Mine has no BC, has 2 USBs, and 80GB drive space. The new slim would up my drive space, cost me half as much money to use (electricity), and would actually fit my TV stand instead of having to sit vertical behind the TV. That said, I didn't buy the slim, but I do know of a few people who did trade in fats for slims. None of them of course were owners of the 60 GB, 4 USB, BC version of the fat.

On the subject of X360, I know of tons of people who have had to re-buy the X360 (poor early adopters).