2010 Hardware Sales

[XanderZane]

Squilliam said:

MightyGrogg said:

Squilliam said:

The crazy thing is the Xbox 360 increasing its sales from

X360

10,232,216

To

4

X360

8.69

0.21

5.38

14.28

So thats close on a 40% increase and beating the peak year in 2008 by a similar margin.

Overall the sales of the consoles this year has to make you wonder when the systems will actually hit the wall in terms of market saturation and finally show some real YOY declines. Could 2011 be that year?

What's amazing about those numbers isn't that is sold over 4 million more in sales then the previous year,  but that it did it during the worse economy in American history since the great depression. Imagine what it will do once the economy recovers in America.

Well we've just found out why no price cut for 2010, they ran close to being completely out of consoles. I don't think the recovery would be worth more than 5% of the overall YTD sales, analysts obsessed over the recession because they deal in percentage changes which are usually between -20% and 20% increase or decrease so that would make up a large proportion of any change, but not against the overall sales numbers.

Anyway next year they'll probably cut the price though it depends on their priorities. That and Kinect throughout the year ought to see them to a pretty strong year and their finish ought to remain strong against the previous quarters sales as well.

The only problem with the recession is that it's not going to get better instantly, so we will never see a huge jump in sales as if 2.5 million Amerixan all of a sudden got their jobs back. It'll be gradual. Microsoft started running out of Kinects just after the holidays ended. They were restocking shelves every week all the way up to X-Mas day. So there are probably some shortages in varies areas of the country. There's no doubt Microsoft will do another price cut this year, especially if Sony does.