Grimboyjr on 29 November 2007
| mrstickball said: Even though I'm suprised that the PS3 wound up besting the X360's total sales this week, it's not totally suprising. We use it alot, but still: the PS3's $400 pricetag is now within some sort of "more mass market" price than the $500 tag. This bodes very well for it. However, the big question is: how long does this hold? When will Microsoft drop the X360 price to compete? As much as I'm happy to see the PS3 finally compete in the global market, and now seems to have traction in their worst territories (Japan mainly, and the US secondly), it's important to see where it ends up in December. We're only at the beginning of the fast-paced sales weeks. What happens if we've seen the majority of increases with the price drop? What if we haven't? There are lots of questions. Even if the PS3 does outsell the X360 worldwide, overall, in Nov-Dec, I still see this as short term. When January rolls around, I feel that MS will drop the price for GTAIV, and start to outsell the PS3 again. Add in the 7 million unit gap, and the PS3 has a really, really long way to go before it really competes with the other 2 systems. As for the X360, last week, it sold 65,000 more units vs. last year. Pretty decent. Looks like it's trending to around 15.9-16.3m units before the end of the year. Definately a much stronger year-end showing than last year. |
I totally agree mrstickball, I think its just a little holiday rush so consumers can get PS3. Sony released the PS3 during the holidays to make it seem like the 40GB is doing something but really its the holiday rush. People are just buying PS3, so really when the holidays is over, it will be the games that will judge how the console will sell.
Then we will truly know if the 40GB PS3 is selling or not.
