Slimebeast said:
steverhcp02 said:
Slimebeast said:
Seece said:
steverhcp02 said:
The most impressive thing to me at this point is the fact that 1 year after the slim and pricecut the PS3 is still up 66% YoY.
Sadly, for Sony, unless Kinect is met with overwhelming negative feedback i dont see what compelling offers the PS3 can offer this holiday WW to compete with the buzz that Kinect will surely cause.
Since Sony has already priced th enew Move model, a $50 price cut seems out of the question, which is pretty much all i could see taking th ePS3 safely to 1st place this holiday. Now its more of a toss up but im going to give the nod to the 360 just based on pre Kinect/Move guesstimation.
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66%?
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Maybe because a YoY comparison means to the last week before Slim launched in 2009 when the PS3 sold like 90K.
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If you looked at the numbers, which i did......
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=113196&page=1#
In July of last year, the WW PS3 sales were 98k, the difference from this week is not due to the decline of last years weekly sales preslim its due to the larger volume of this year. Had we seen sales dip this week in 2009 id agree with you, but the % difference YoY is not due to lower volume in regards to the preslim weeks its due to the growth THIS YEAR of sustained PS3 sales.
As you see the PS3 was at 98k July 10th, well before the slim and cut....the PS3 is simply just tracking very well a year after.
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Okay okay.
Was you the guy who made those lenghty analysis of generation sales a year ago or so, in particular when sales of a console peak?
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Something interesting to note about the YOY comparison. Throughout the summer slump PS3 has been averaging about 140k per week. Last year the 360 was averaging in the low 100ks to 110k throughout the summer. When it got the SKU shift at the end of August it lifted average weekly sales in September to about what the PS3 has been doing for the past couple months. With the exact same thing happening to the PS3 this year and with Move on the horizon that means that PS3 will likely continue to track noticeably ahead of 360's 2009 numbers, probably averaging around 160k-180k in September.
