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

[wenlan]

ioi said:

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.

i agree with most of things you said.

about "OVER HALF of the intital spike was from people buying the new model", do you mean existing PS3 owners rebuy/trade in?

if so, do you have solid evidence to support this statement?

may i ask what % of DSi was purchased by existing DSL owners during the launch week?  you must have some data in your hand.  just curious :)