The Official November 2010 NPD Thread

[saicho]

thx1139 said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

thx1139 said:

Lets do some Algebra to figure out avg sales prices of the 3 consoles.

We know that total hardware revenue is $1.08 billion.
We know that X360 avg price was $290.
We know that between the 3 consoles the revenue split was X360 46%, PS3 29%, Wii 24%.

X360 revenue is $290*1,370,000 = 397,300,000

Formula for total revenue is X*.46=397,300,000 solve for X.

X*.46=397,300,000
X=397,300,000/.46
X=863,695,652

So revenue per console

Wii $207,286,956
PS3 $250,471,739
X360 $397,300,000

Avg price of console

Wii = $177 = $207,286,956 / 1,170,000
PS3 = $472 = $250,471,739 / 530,000  - This doesnt seem right
360 = $290 = $397,300,000

Everything seems right except the PS3 avg price. No way was the PS3 avg price was $472.  Did I calculate something wrong.  Wii avg price was heavily effected by special pricing.

Like I said their data is highly questionable as they simply state they patched things together and that total doesn't make a whole lot of sense for PS3 or Wii, can someone even link places having 150 dollar Wiis?  I know a lot of places like walmart having an extra game with it on black friday everywhere else was 200 so that would be the average price for it as well.

BestBuy had Wii's in sale all BF weekend for $169 and they had loads of them. When you walked in the lined the aisles with stacks of Wii's (all 3 colors) in the two stores I was in on Friday and Saturday and they never seemed to run out.

As koffieboon pointed out, you used the wrong number for Wii. Using the correct number for Wii (1,270,000), the average price drops to $163. Even if BestBuy is selling Wii for $169 for the whole month, it's not gonna bring the average down to below $169.

It's either the author's assumption for average selling price for 360 is wrong or his hardware pie chart is wrong or actually both.