New Year's week update:
1) This will be that last of my weekly updates in this thread since the initial cut effects and the holidays are now over. However, I intend to do a monthly update to the "period" charts on the last week of each month. I'll do this until the end of August which will cover 1 year for each of the cut and at that point the "net 2008+2009 change" will be the actual gap change for the full two years.
2) PS3 wins in all categories this week as PS3 2009 > 360 2008 and PS3 2008 > 360 2009. There's a reason for this, however. Sales in Americas (360's strength) collapse after Christmas week, but New Years sales are still part of the holidays in Japan and Others where 360 support is weak to horrible. The effect last year, when 360 sales dominated the holidays, meant that 360 and PS3 sales were almost equal for the week. The effect this year, when PS3 sales dominated the holidays, resulted in a huge imbalance in PS3's favour for the week (nearly 200k units).
3) Now that the holidays and the weekly updates are over, it's approrpriate to summarize things a bit. Clearly the PS3 price cut is the "winner" against the 360 cut. Not only did the PS3's cut wipe out the gap increase from last year, but there has been a further gap reduction of 515k.
| WEEK ENDED SEPT 5/6 TO JAN 2/3 (WORLD) | Price-reduced console sales | Other console sales | Gap increase (360) or decrease (PS3 for the period |
| 2008 | 360: 6,648,863 | PS3: 4,584,232 | 360: 2,064,631 |
| 2009 | PS3: 8,137,775 | 360: 5,557,636 | PS3: 2,580,139 |
| Lead | PS3: 1,488,912 | 360: 973,404 | PS3: 515,508 (net 2008+2009 change) |
| WEEK ENDED JAN 2/3 (WORLD) | Price-reduced console sales | Other console sales | Gap increase (360) or decrease (PS3) for the week |
| 2008 | 360: 382,474 | PS3: 359,005 | 360: 23,469 |
| 2009 | PS3: 514,801 | 360: 319,242 | PS3: 195,559 |
| Lead | PS3: 132,327 | PS3: 39,763 | PS3: 172,090 (net 2008+2009) |
