Smashchu2 said:
Not exactly. First, a sale on the second hard market is also a lose of a user on the first hand market. While it depends on the product, usually you sell a product off if you don't like it or it serves no purpose for you. If someone sells a 360 and someone else buys it, there was no change in the total number of net 360 sales. A good way to look at it would be to take total sales and minus out used sales/outstanding. This would give you a net realizable sales. Also, if demand for the system is high, then everyone wants to get one. This means more used sales as well. Quantity demanded jumps may be different, depending on how much the system is sold for on the second hand market. Price drops aren't people wanting the system, just that now there is fewer hoops to jump in to get the product. So the used market wont naturally just increase with it. It will demand on what happens in that market. |
What I'm saying is when demand for a product is higher or if it is low supply for what the demand is the price of a used product gets closer to the price of a new if not going above it and some secondary retaillers just outright charge more than the MSRP like ones that sell through Amazon.com. Why would people pay more than the msrp of a product unless they have some difficulty finding it? Because the demand at the price available is higher than the supply. Thus a shortage. Mostly a self made one by sony but a shortage all the same.
Back to seeing what the demand is. How do we know how much demand changes because of price vs how much it increased because of other changes in demand? We don't really know. we know the ps3 is selling more yoy most are probably from a change in price but can anyone say for sure it's all of them? No. Now if sales are still up yoy once we reach a year after the price cut it would be pretty clear demand is up beyond that from the price change.
