slowmo said:
zgamer5 said:
thx1139 said:
CGI-Quality said:
thx1139 said:
Nope GT5 is doing exactly what I thought it would do.
Big time Christmas present for existing PS3 owners and not moving much additional hardware.
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GT5 didn't move just hardware it's release week, it helped to increase it weekly during the holiday, with the PS3 not falling too far behind 2009 levels. Without a price cut, it (and Move) were definite key factors, unless you're suggesting the PS3 stayed close to the previous year's numbers just based on existing merits.
Whatever the case may be, GT5 has contributed to a substantial amount of hardware moving during the 2010 holiday season.
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Over and over people said this is when PS3 makes its final push and catches the 360. The fact of the matter is that when consoles have the install base that all 3 consoles have a software title has minimal effect on new hardware sales. The simple fact that the consoles have a good library and more new good software will continue to be released keeps the sales going.
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those people never knew of a slim and kinects 500 million ad budget. its like if you come and say that all the people who predicted 360 to be at 46 million by years end were dillusional.
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They were.
If they hadn't expected the slim and advertsiing budget they still knew Kinect was coming and it would have some boost. There is also the fact that they knew Reach was launching which would push sales and also be advertised to create interest. Finally had the slim not released it's pretty much nailed on there would have been a modest cut to generate more interest too. All in all I fail to see how anyone could seriously predict sales less than 48 million without either wishful thinking or ignorance of the market imo.
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360 ender with what 50 million at years end. slim gave a boost from its release till now, and no one expected the budget to be 500m so their prediction would have probably been correct or 1 milion of.
