Japan Wii, PSP weekly sales triple after price cuts

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bluthunder said:

bmmb1 said:

So many "the Wii is DOOMEZ" posts yet no-one bothered to mention that these sales numbers are for a week where only 4 days had the price cut?

By unscientific extrapolation, taking into account how much the WIi sold in the week before that, had this week been with a price cut from the start, Wii sales would have been around 48,000 ...

[added] Hhow I came by that number? 10,500 / 7 = 1,500 Wii per day just before price cut. 32,000 sold minus three non price cut days = 27,500 sold after price cut. 27,500 /4 = 6875 sold every day after price cut. 6875 x 7 days with price cut = 48,125 Wiis had that week had a price cut from the beginning...[/added]

It was only 4 days of the price cut first week for PS3 too. Going by your calculations that would mean PS3 "really" sold 260,293 after it's price cut ...

 

 

Keep in mind that the Japan PS3 slim sales were sales of a new SKU + price cut, which behave differently from just a price cut (new SKU would be much more front loaded - have a look at ioi's charts depicting typical sales behavior of a price cut vs. a new SKU vs. a new SKU with a price cut at http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=5126).

Anyway, time will tell - instead of jumping to conclusions on Japan, I recommend waiting to see what the Japan numbers are for the week ending October 11th.

 

By the way, I did mention it was an unscientific calculation, all I wanted to demonstrate is that the picture is not as clear cut as some would like to present it.