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txrattlesnake on 24 October 2009
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Noobie said:
ZorroX said:
Noobie said:
You have a very low upper limit for XBOX360... i think it can do around 5 Million too.. although i expect it to do around 4M +/- 250k...

I took 3.5M and 5.3M, because that is how much PS3/360 sold last year. And this year, they`ve changed their places. I mean, PS3 got pricecut and x360 got additional 60GB. But why x360 sales would go up(over PS3`s last year sales) without pricecut and on 4th year, is beyond me.
Maybe you know something, what i don`t?

So you are saying that total HD(PS3+X360) console sales will be equal to last year total HD console(PS3 + X360) sales??

I think XBOX360 is still the cheapest entry into the HD consoles at $199... secondly MS has a very strong fanbase n advertisement in US, so i m not expecting XBOX360 sales going to go much below than last yrs.. There r definitely going to be bundles also... Just like in Japan even when PS3 didn;t have any software and XBOX360 was getting all the exclusives, it didn;t fall to 2 - 3k level for much... So similarly in US XBOX cannot go to such low numbers.

Secondly i believe that total HD consoles (PS3 + X360) sales will be higher than last yr and they might eat a little into Wii sales ... and moreover 4th yr could still be the peak yr for XBOX360...

 

      You're right about the 360 being the cheapest entry into the hd wars.  However, I think Microsoft's own advertising has taken away that advantage.  Since August they've only been advertising that the Elite is $100.00 cheaper than it used to be in almost all of their advertising and not even mentioned the Arcade at all which I believe has had a negative effect on the Arcade model. 

       And so far it seems many more people want a PS3 Slim than a 360 Elite.

 

     To truely reinvigorate sales this year they will need to bring the price of the Arcade down to $150.00 and put a decent ad campaign behind it or maybe bring back the old Pro model with the 60 gig harddrive as the new Arcade model for $199.