Sooo.. 65M by 2012?

[NotStan]

Immortal said:

NotStan said:

I don't think that the companies are concerned regarding the numbers their compeittion does, they most likely care about;

i) Their own product sells

ii) They make profits.

It's mainly the fanboys on forums that biggie up the importance of sales competition that is going on and use every little petty victory as crow to serve to the other camp.

No, but in this case, Nintendo, at least, will have to. I mean, the biggest advantage they have going into the next gemeration, which seems to be right around the corner, is their large userbase which'll buy the Bii before even looking at the HD sequels. If Kinect starts feeding off old Wii users, this advantage will be given to Microsoft. Also, their software sales will be completely drained since their userbase will be busy buying Kinect games.

I don't think that Nintendo are too concerned with the release of the challenges, ie Move and Kinect, they see it as a threat but not a big enough threat as to damage their standing with the casual crowd, if they did we'd likely see Regie slagging off Kinect and Move, he was timid and casual about the mention rather than aggressive in any way, if he held himself bac kudos to him, but I just don't think that he feels threatened at all. I mean Nintendo managed to pull incredible holiday numbers despite the release of Kinect and Move, it really doesn't affect the userbases much as if you think about it, a new casual entrant to the market would have to purchase a 360 AND a kinect, totalling around $299 or £250(Same for PS3 and Move) whereas he/she can purchase the Wii for half that price.

I really don't think they feel threatened, if there is a price cut then it was more aimed towards trying to prevent the inevitable Wii decline YoY, rather than attempting to stump the growth of the competition.

For all you know all the PR's of the companies might get together for friendly games of golf every now and then.