| PDF said: Your argument is fair and based of reason other than just simple believing the numbers. Are you arguing inflation or saturation or both? I do still disagree that the PS3 and 360 have been affected due to a little saturation after BF. If anything supposedly PS3 saw shortages for a little while as it sold out at many places. This would then argue that demand was not met and no saturation should occur. I also disagree against BF inflation argument. As sure there were many deals for all consoles more for the PS3 and 360 this would give a higher rise for that week which would explain a HD > Wii if that was against the trend but it wasnt. It was just following the same pattern we have seen all year. HD > Wii has been a yearly trend not just a 1 week during BF. So you cant argue a 1 week inflation argument when its been a yearly issue. |
Good point on PS3 shortages. I'm not exactly sure how things went down that week, though. Were normal PS3 deals (no BF deals) sold out as well? I guess I'm arguing inflation.
As for breaking the HD > Wii trend, I'd put that on the recent happenings - Wii's price cut, and more importantly, NSMB Wii. Since the price cut, the Wii has outsold (or equaled) HD consoles for most weeks. The exceptions are the Uncharted 2 release, the 360 Walmart deal, Modern Warfare 2 release, and Black Friday. Now that all of these are out of the way, the Wii shines, especially due to NSMB Wii, which pushes more consoles over time (especially over the holidays), as opposed to on release.
Either way, if you don't buy these arguments, there's not much that we can do besides wait for more credible numbers... I expected PS3 a bit higher and Wii a bit lower, though I think Wii > HD regardless (just not by 100k 75k, which is a surprise).
