| selnor said: Scarily on week 5 of the aligned launches of PS3 Slim and 360s for US is the following. PS3 Slim 5th week in America moves into October, which is naturally a better selling time of the year. You would expect any console to do better in October than in July. 360's 5th week = 103,000 July. PS3 Slim 5th week = 84,000 October.
360 is just unstoppable in US. If M$ had of waited and had more units available in September/October we may well have seen 180 - 220 k a week on it's 5th week. |
PS3 was doing around 30k-35k before the new model launched, X360 about 50k-55k so the increase is about the same. Though Microsoft will definitely be making more profit on their new model than Sony did(they were still losing money).
Microsoft should release a $299 Halo Reach bundle, that way they could keep the momentum going until Kinect and the holidays. They could probably even affort a price cut before than, but i think they will be satisfied with current sales and keep it profitable.
