Americas up!

[NYANKS]

binary solo said:

NYANKS said:

CGI-Quality said:

HKN said:

Kinect doing nothing for hardware as of yet.

I wouldn't say that, I just don't think it's doing as much for hardware as some hoped. We'll know in due time, however. In EMEAA, it'll have to hold off the onslaught that is Gran Turismo 5. Here in the States, Kinect will probably have the larger impact, and Japan is anybody's game, but will likely favor GT5 as well.

All in all, this week's numbers are likely a combination of a spike from Black Ops and Kinect together.

But is it just me, or is it QUITE a bit lower than expected?  I'm really not trying to troll, but I was expecting like 500k in sales, even some big Xbox fans in the thread seemed to have too.  I must've gotten the shipments completely botched or something.  I mean it did amazing, but am I being too optimistic for PS3?  I looked at the sales and was like "Oh, PS3 isn't in as bad a shape as I figured", even down like 70k lol.   What say you?

From my perspective it's you.

I was expecting mid 400Ks for this week. Albeit I forgot it was Black Ops week, I never expected Black Ops to cause a major HW boost. People saying 500K were being overly optimistic about (i) Kinect HW boost in EMEAA or (ii) Kinect causing major HW boost 2 weeks running, or both. So for me 360 HW this week is exactly meeting my expectations. I just have no idea what to set as expectations next week. My gut is telling me it'll be flat-ish WW and in Americas as the natural holiday rise is offset by the natural post big release drop.

How is it me if you expected about 450k and I expected 500k, when it actually hit about 200k?  Your prediction is closer to mine than the actual, AND you din't factor in Black Ops, which might have raised your prediction to about mine. 

Believe me, I'm not in a dream land.  360 is kicking ass and will continue to beat the PS3 on just about any account.  I just figured it was a bit low going by general talk around the forums.