kowenicki said:
AnthonyW86 said:
I kind of hate the guy, but i'm going to quote Pachter on this one:
"During the month, Wal-Mart ran a promotion offering $50 gift cards with the purchase of an Arcade bundle, driving the already-discounted $149 price down to an effective $99 price point," Pachter said.
"It is clear that the sales spike for the 360 was largely temporary, as clearance items accounted for around 60% of total sales, and it is not clear that software attached heavily to these purchases."
So according to him 60% of 360 sales were old models, not the 360 S. Don't know if that's true, but the old models did get a price cut and a insane Wall-Mart deal it seems.
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oh this again... the slim was only available for 1/2 the month!!
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But the 1/2 when it wasn't available X360 was only selling 50k a week, so the bulk of the sales was still from the period with the slim available. Not saying that it makes the X360S performance less impressive(old PS3 where discounted when the Slim launched aswell you know), just putting it out there.
Besides the real succes of the model can only determined after a few months of sales, and i don't see the Xbox 360s boost the consoles sales close to 40% YoY by next year like it did for the PS3(Halo Reach and Natal will boost sales though).
