Darth Tigris said:
Ok, you added some details, but you do know that you are leaving a lot out as well. If we wanted to we could mention the PS3 bundles and the different exclusives released last year vs. this year for each respective system. We could also mention that last year it was a $400/500 PS3 vs a $200/300/400 360 that had a fairly fresh price cut. This year its a freshly cut $300/400 PS3 vs a $200/300 360. Also who knows how the Wii price cut is affecting the sales of both HD systems. And the Walmart deal was, if I'm not mistaken, only in place for one day of this sales period and it was pretty much sold out by then. We could go on and on and on and on and still get nowhere. But I think Squilliam hit the nail on the head when he stated that, despite all of these numbers, its all about who is profitable in the end and that is where Sony sits squarely in 3rd place and currently unprofitable. That has to change. |
No, PROFIT doesnt matter here...this isnt a company bottom line forum. Its a sales numbers forum. We dont all gather here for ioi's work of company bottom lines, sure we discuss those things when they come out in their respective threads, but this thread and this site is dedicated to cold hard sales numbers, thats whats discussed here.
Sure we can take into account "numbers" such as price in arguments about total consoles sold. But the only time company profit comes up here is when Sony outsells MSFT or Nintendo (for a very brief time haha) then it all switches to profit to downplay anything positive for the PS3. Ive been here long enough to know that.
Bottom line, Entry price matters. So you can post the tiered prices from last year and this year, the fat of the matter is if someone wanted a 360 they had to pay $200 to get into the game and $400 for last year. Thats a huge difference that likely contributed to the 360 dominating last year.
And to the bolded about walmart, the deal was week long but not all stores got multiple shipments but it was still a huge deal as evident by the numbers last week which accounted for the one day.
I know i typed a lot so not many people will read it, but the bottom line is the 360 sales for this week were inflated due to 2 HUGE factors, COD bundle (WW) and walmart (America) The release slates of this year vs last year are a moot point since they are only significant to people interested in those games, this far into generation most titles simply wont push hardware, its about entry price which is why the main factors are not software.
