| Carl2291 said: I might have missed this in this thread... But the PSP just passed 70 Million units shipped. That is fantastic. And... As an added bonus. PS1, PS2 and PS3 have now surpassed 300 Million units combined. Sony have broke the 300 Million barrier with Home consoles only. With PSP it's (obviously) at 370 Million. In Home Consoles, PlayStation won the Year... Selling over 20 Million Consoles. (With handhelds it's a totally different picture) Since PS3 Slim released, the PS3 has outsold the 360 by almost 5 Million units too. I think?
This has been an excellent Year for Sony. |
well....
I know at one point, the 360-PS3 World Wide hardware gap was about 8 million....
that was just before the PS3 slim released in August 2009
so in about 1 and 1/2 year, the PS3 shrank that gap to roughly 4 million....
that's pretty damn impressive to me....
the PS3 doesn't really need a price cut, because PS3 hardware is pretty strong in EMEAA
the 360 is really strong in the U.S, while the PS3 has the EMEAA and Japan, which will cancell out the Americas out, so the 360 and PS3 will be roughly tied in worldwide weekly sales for the near future, so maybe MS and Sony will keep the status quo
at any rate, if the price cuts come for the 360 and PS3, I think the PS3 will sell more hardware at $249 than the 360 will sell at $249....
MS has had the $199 360 model for a long time, and of course maybe only 25% or so are sales of the $199 model, but still.... $199 is still $199
(btw, I still have the 'core' model (as it was called at the time) without the hard drive that I bought in January 2006 for $299)
When you think about it, the PS3 has never been $249, so I highly suspect, the drop to $249 will benefit the PS3 more than the 360
