Michael-5 said:
I agree 100% on you about Wii picking up pace during the Holdiays, for your reasons, and also for the added reason that Wii sales are generally strongest during the holidays (probably because parents buy it for their kids and stuff). As for PS3 >360, I completly disagree. The PS3 experienced it's Slim effect until, well until the 360 made a Slim model. It's true the PS3 Slim had the old SKU to face with where the 360 Slim has the PS3 Slim to face with, but the Slim effect will not die out by the holidays. Holiday sales begin to pick up in September and October, and the 360 is still outselling the PS3 worldwide by 60k a week, or by over 30%. Without Halo the 360 Slim would continue to hold 360 sales until GT5, but with Halo, the 360 gets a big early holiday boost. As for EMEAA, thats iffy, at best Sony can expect to match sales when GT5 come out, but until then it's still 360 territory (remember UK is heavily 360 biased, and it sells more consoles then any other country in EMEAA). However MS has Kinect, and the success of Kinect is hard to predict. It may sell as well as a good game, it may push more units then GT5 or Halo. I don't think the PS3 will experience a lead in sales over the 360 until 2011, and even then thats a maybe. The one year PS3 outsold 360, I blaime for the Slim, and Sony can't pull that move again. The 360 has Halo, Kinect, and Fable, and all three will push more consoles then GT5, Move, and LBP2. GT5 versus Halo is debatable, but then there is also a 360 bundled Call of Duty, the slim effect, and 360 generally has been the beeter selling system in the past. NO new PS3 Slim, means 360 edge, this is not 2009. BTW, there will be 21 Move titles by the end of the year in Americas, and 20 Kinect games in Americas. However a couple move games are simply compatible with games currently out (like Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition). |
See your smart enough to know that Wii will be #1 again this Holiday!
As far as P.S.3 and 360 go you make some good points but L.B.P.2 will be bigger in Others than Fable 3 and G.T.5 will be bigger in Others than Halo Reach and Move V.S Kinect could go either way. 360 will be HUGE in America this year but not to be against the 360(I am a Nintendo fan and am not on Sony or Microsofts side) but I don't see it very big in Others when the Holiday's start and that together with Japan could outsell American 360 #'s and could cause 360 to be #3 in the end.(Holiday's) Also we don't know Sony or Nintendo's full Holiday plans yet either...Microsoft could have something left that they didn't announce yet but I doubt it and with Sony I would say that their is about a 50% chance that they haven't announced everything yet(Price cut?) Also with Nintendo I am 95% sure that they have something planned for this year that we don't know fully about yet and they will announce whatever it is probably on September 29th at their fall Conference. Another Price cut could happen or even a new color or even a surprise game but I am willing to bet that the little pulse reading item that almost everyone has forgotten about will come out by the end of 2010 and nobody know it could fail but also could be the next Wii Fit!






