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selnor on 07 June 2010
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A203D said:
ramses01 said:
puffy said:
selnor said:

I really do believe M$ are in a perfect position to be number 1 in sales WW this holiday and for the next year. They have to chuck a ton of marketing behind this relaunch. 

With Natal 360 bundle for same or less than Wii, it really could be a new era this gen. I will re buy my 360 for a new model with Natal. 

To be honest I think many will. I dont think sales of individual Natal units will be that high. It will be mainly new 360 Natal bundles that will sell. Sending the 360 WW figures above Wii for sometime. 

I think we are in for a shock this holiday. Serious 360 sales. 


lol

If all three big levers, Price cut, 360 , and aggressive Natal pricing (primarily bundles), are pulled, then the 360 could realistically be in first place for the holidays.

Possibily, but the most important lever in all this is games, and i dont think family orientated games will rebrand the 360 as a new family console; that is the market their trying to tap into. so i think there could be a sales surge when this all comes together, but the reason the sales have declined is because the PS3's libaray of triple A games is growing faster. and if it dosent have the games to back it up i'm not sure if it could get to 1st place.

the other thing is that the 2 other consoles can counter-measure this with their own price cuts, bundles, etc. and i think the most important thing is games. and the key thing is that move has an edge in that department; because of the similarities beween wii and move, 3rd party games like dead space extraction & resident evil the darkside chronicles can go cross platform, so natal is already at a dissadvantage.

 

 

I dont think 360 will need a price cut at all. The hardcore Ninty fans wont buy the Natal. You know the Wii fans that buy SMG for example. But the huge amount of families like my Aunty and my brother in law who have Wii's with 20 mini game type games I believe will upgrade to Natal this holiday. M$ are gonna have adverts every 15 mins for this thing. Bigger than the launch for 360 in the first place. 

I'm looking forward to September. My local Game manager in UK said they should have a M$ rep in my city then with Natal rigged up for a week instore. Cant wait for my early play.