PS3>Wii In Japan this Week, DESPITE Wii Price Cut - thoughts!!??

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ioi said:

ZorroX said:

So, PS3 get a pricecut with new Slim model and in 4 days sell 150k, then drop to 60k.
While Wii got a pricecut and in 4 days sold 32k. Then next week, more people will get aware about Wii pricecut and Wii sales will increase to 40-45k, because Wii is so cool in Japan.

Not because, Wii sales were droping year to year or maybe Wii already saturated Japan market and only some big/huge games can move some new units,
because like Wii Sport Resort,
so and Wii Fit Plus had no big effect on Wii sales, though both games sold a lot.

Can I bang my head against a wall please?!!

The massive PS3 spike was DUE TO THE PS3 SLIM MODEL, not purely from a PRICE CUT. If PS3 had just had the price reduced it would have done more like 65k - 55k - 50k - 45k - 35k or whatever. OVER HALF of the intital spike was from people buying the new model.

Price cuts tend to have a flatter and more sustained effect, new model launches have a large peak and dropoff.

Man why don't you guys actually read the analyses that we spend so long putting together before spouting this rubbish over and over again.

The initial week after PS3 slim release and initial week following Wii price cut are two totally different things. Wii should be higher in ALL regions next week or flat at the very least. By exactly the same theory, PSP sales should be up slightly next week as well in Japan but down in America / Others.

because they dont rationalize, thats all. You give them perfect explanations, and they will continue to ask why, and question you. Just like Neogaf, you can explain all you want, but sadly they will never get it.. Good thing I got it =D