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Gilgamesh on 05 March 2011
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Soriku said:
Gilgamesh said:

"The biggest pusher of the PS3 is probably the Slim and that came out over a year ago."

I like to think of that event as the rebirth of the PS3. A Slimmer version came a long with a price and from that came the switch in Wii and PS3 sales. There are still several more price cuts left into the PS3 (the console is selling for $350 in Japan, there a lot more price cuts to go till it's under $200 which would be a sales explosion), and obviously there are going to be more MGS, FF, RE, Yakuza, DMC games coming this gen more big spikes, and like I said another Slimmer PS3 would kill in Japan, which IS coming.

Most of that 6.3 million sales was from it's high price, as it get's cheaper sales will continue to rise. I didn't specifically say the PS3 will do 15 million, but close, within 1 - 2 million away easy, the Wii will probably barely manage 15 million. Also whos to say in the future the PS3 won't be doing over 40K a week and the Wii under 10K? The way this gen is going that's easily possible.

There are more price cuts to be had, but $300 was really the big point for consumers ($350 in Japan apparently), thus the "rebirth" you're talking about. More price cuts will help but I don't see them being huge unless in Japan they cut the price down to $200 (in yen) all at once, but something that drastic isn't going to happen. Also the WIi will be getting price cuts as well.

Any new major game is going to push the PS3, but not to the same level as the original games. Again, despite all those major games and a good price point in Japan that's been here for over a year, the PS3 is still only at 6.3 mil, which is still very far from 13-15 mil.

And there's no reason to think the PS3 will suddenly do a regular 40k a week, not after 4 years in already...


Okay referring to your first paragraph, $300 it NOT the "big point for consumers" the mass market price is $199, PS3 is one or two price cuts away from that. The Wii is already at mass market price, any other price cut after will not have the same impact as a PS3 price cut would. $350 is still alot of money for people, $200 not so bad.

Now your second paragraph seemed to ignore my last post, yes those games coming out again is not going to make as big of an impact like the orignal but that's not to say there won't be an impact. And like I said I still wouldn't call the PS3 price "good" it's still more expensive then the PS2 and Wii's launch price. That's not good? 

Now your last paragraph...let's go back to the X360, this is it's 6th year out and it's the market leader in America, should that make sense? no, but it is, it's selling better then it ever did. That's why I'm saying the PS3 could easily start doing PSP numbers in Japan. The Wii doesn't have much hope it's losing sales in every market, lack of games, and the HD consoles are taking over, the 3DS and PSP2 aer really going to kill the Wii sales in Japan.