World Wide Sales UP!!...PS3 > 360 by 74K , WiiDS Sales EXPLODE!

[Alby_da_Wolf]

To add strange things to strange things, I saw at a store in my town, Genoa, an expensive place normally, white Wii's, despite the recent cut and the high demand, furtherly discounted by 25%, offer expires 6 December, IIRC, because 8 December, Feast of Immaculate Conception, and the days around it, there are in many parts of Italy the earliest Xmas markets (so forget big discounts starting from then until January, high season fully starts), and 13 December, St. Lucy, in some other parts of Italy gifts are given to children (so totally forget discounts by then).
Maybe the offer has to do with the fact that currently black Wii is considered by most the coolest console available, so the biggest discount I saw for it, always until 6 December, is 12%.
On PS3 instead of discounts, I saw only official and unofficial bundles, with games, movies, additional pads, etc., offered at the list price of the sole console, but most attractive bundles, with more than one successful game or recent movie, are quite expensive and rarely offered below list price if they are official bundles, and with very little saving if they are unofficial ones put together by the reseller (in this case one or both games or movies, though, are freely choosable by the buyer).
Despite huge sales and so not needing them, DS has offers as good as PSP.
I didn't see many XB360 offers around, but they looked quite good value for money.
I'm just realizing that perhaps all these offers on attractive items not needing them during high season, normally, have to do with the fact that as more and more Italian regions are switching to digital terrestrial broadcasting, most families, instead of simply buying a decoder, are buying a new TV, leaving less money available for other purchases...
The loss leader hypothesis isn't very likely, even discounted consoles aren't cheap and the average family won't buy many other not strictly necessary things, once bought one of them, maybe at most one or two games if there aren't bundled ones, waiting for January clearance sales to buy other ones.