binary solo said:
Damn you! You stole my reply! (kind of) I was just going to say "Well, they'll have a hard time playing it then." Did anyone read the full atricle? This analyst must have been writing pre-Slim because he was saying GoW III will release late 2009 / early 2010. Obviously that means this analysis hasn't taken into account the slim launch and the release of GoW collection (in the USA). The Analyst is maybe picking that pricecut and GoW III would hit at a similar time (whereas Uncharted 2 and price cut hit at a similar time instead). I'm thinking, with Slim's 5 month selling period prior to GoW III release (and a slight effect from CoW collection) that ratio will have gone down to something more like 1:7 or 1:8. On a 1 million 1st week that could still mean a 100-125K boost. But I'm sure the analyst wasn't too far off when he first made that statement. |
Now well this analyst had stated a year ago that early 2010 would be pivotal for Sony with the GoW release. Well it didn't happen in late 2009 but the price-cut happened according to his prediction. And thus the ratio must've reduced to atleast 1/5 as of current. Well where does this put things now? More gamers are picking up PS3's at the current price which has become close to an affordable limit and with the release of this game, more than expected sales are bound to occur. All regions equally, a little more than expected.
