Best selling console for 2011? (Big Three)

[Beuli2]

Carl2291 said:

Beuli2 said:

Wii - You forget that the price cut was around September, so  it only affected the 3 upcoming months, while in 2008 the Wii was doing awesome the whole year, so it's not conclusive to say avoid dropping beyond 10%.

PS3 - Continue it's upwards spiral? The PS3 has been down YOY since the beggining of the year (although not quite as much as the Wii), so there is no way it can "continue doing good", it can just recover what it has. I doubt a pricecut will help so much, and those bundles are just lol, only the GT5 one can be significative. Besided, almost none of the "great" software releasing this year will have a impact in HW (I can only count FFXIII vs, but I'm problably forgetting something).

Xbox 360 - Seems about right, although I don't expect a pricut. It will only end up YoY because it was so low half of last year, and without the pricut it will surely be down yoy after E3.

Does it matter when the pricecut was? Not really. It still had one, to go along with its biggest game... Ever. It was still down YoY despite a record breaking Holiday season. If Nintendo wanted to be up YoY they shouldn't have waited to cut... Not my problem. They were still down YoY.

PS3 has been up every Year since it released. It's increased in sales every Year. That's what I'm talking about. The bundles might be "meh" in your eyes, but not everyones. I thought the Wii bundles this Year were "Meh", but look how many they sold. I thought the 360 bundles that included LEGO Indy and Kung Fu Panda were pathetic, but look what they did. They add value to your system. They help. And the new SW releasing isn't all supposed to boost the console. It's supposed to keep the console looking fresh and in the eye of the public. This also matters, as look at what's happening to the Wii now that nobody is currently releasing big, good games for it.

360 hasn't had a pricecut since 2008. It will get one this Year if MS have even half of a brain and know that US doesn't = the World.

How does the time the price cut had effect doesn't have meaning if we are talking about time periods? After the pricecut, the Wii was, I believe, up year on year, but because it only had effect on the last three months of the year, it wasn't able to counterbalance the downing trend the first part of the year had.

The PS3 has been going up just because it was hard to go any lower than it was, so you just can consider the sales it is having now average. I'm not talking about bundles being bad as an internet forum poster, I'm talking about the reality, the business side. Those people that buy the lego and panda games buy them because of the content, they think that the game is going to be as good as the movie and they want to further explore the world of the movie, that's why they sell well, not because they are pathetic in your eyes.

I'm pretty sure a pricecute wouldn't help the Xbox 360 a lot in EMEAA, in some months the effect would wear down and then they would start the losses again. And Japan the effect would just be LOL.