| Coca-Cola said: Great strategy from Nintendo - holding back and creating excitement and desire for Wii. 600k in one day? Great for PS3, for me at least, I'm planning to get PS3 when they drop the price next year - it might come soon enough. ($299?) Great for X360 - this is the most sales I've seen for 360. I was looking for X360 Pro yesterday, and Best Buys, Walmart and Gamestop didn't have any - and no RockBand either. I think 360 will have another great numbers next week. |
No it is not a great strategy. They needed to get as many out as soon as possible. Only reason they did this is because it is all they could do. Plenty of people have been frustrated and the longer they waited the more chance they were going to opt for something else instead. This past Saturday I witnessed a person give up and pick up a 360 Arcade instead of a Wii at Best Buy. Told her that if she really wanted a Wii she could get in line early in the morning and she said she had it with that. Told her the 360 was better choice anyway and enjoy it. MSNBC had a story about Wii not being available a few weeks back and many people had already given up and purchased 360's and to a lessor extent the PS3.
Sure 600-700K will look really impressive for the Wii this week, but you should see all system jump this week. 360 will probably be over 400K and PS3 approach 250K. Next week with just Sunday and Monday as pre-christmas will be down big time.
Libraries sell systems not individual games
