dodece for the win!
He hit the nail on the head.
A good increase might mean nothing in the face of it just being a spike, if it is. Remember when Sony had that wonderful $100 pricedrop on the 20/60gb models? Remember how well it sold in August? It was great. Till the September numbers came out and we found out that the PS3 was worse off than it was before the drop (or near it).
It *seems* that in Europe, the drop might have a better, more permanant effect. Nevertheless, what matters if it trends well: the X360, since August has trended much, much, much, infinitely better in the US/PAL. The X360 was selling 40k/wk for many weeks. It's been above 70k for more than 2 months, and is now supposedly even double the 70k ammount, and hasn't seen significant drops since Halo 3. Likewise, although more tepid, the European/Other markets are still 100% above what it was before the Elite launched (in which, the X360 was selling roughly 19,000 units/wk in all of those territories).
So what happens now? Is it a spike, or trend. The issue is Sony doesn't have great software like the Xbox 360 to fully utilize the pricedrop. Maybe consumers will latch on, seeing the titles coming up. Maybe they won't.
Wait until November comes around. If the PS3 can get a 150% week-over-week boost in every region in Nov/Dec, it's obvious it helped. Or it could DreamCast, and only increase barely, and just fail in every region.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
