| SpartanFX said: @james 6.5 is impossible,,, 5.5 maybe |
How is it impossible? I personally see it selling more, however the data suggests 6.5 million.
Last year, PS3 sold a little under 4 million between October 5th to January 1st, or the holiday season. Same sales last year around October 1st were 150 thousand a week for PS3. Right now PS3 is evening off at around 230-250 same time, meaning selling about 30-40% more. About a third more. Meaning about 5.5 million is granted, meaning the min. Since we also have an introduction of a smaller console people see it as something new, so that usually has an increase of about 20% on hliday season(PS2 slim, PSP slim, PS1 slim, etc all did this). So we could see an actual increase during holiday season to be about 40-60% on last year. So sales will be between 5.5-7 million. Now we also know year on year PS3 was the most "wanted" electronic on charts for like amazon etc during holiday. We also know just how many people were "waiting for 300$" or affordable. We also know a 300$ pricepoint is known as the casual mid-end. 350 is casual high end, and 250 is casual low end. Meaning when casuals start adapting. By casuals I mean people who wait for price drops, older people, parents for younger kids etc. Seeing 6.5 million this holiday season is nearly impossible not to see. Unless something goes horribly wrong. I personally think it'll sell 7-8 million. Sony has predicted they'll sell 34 million worldwide by march 2010, and have 37 million shipped. So they are at 24.5 million now, so if they sell 6.5 million thats 31 million, which puts them at the PERFECT factor to meet there deadline, if it still sells about a million a month after december.
