Tretton: "We expect strong growth in the next fiscal year"

[postofficebuddy]

Immortal said:

Financial reports in just a few weeks, right? Would be rather shocking to see them beat their target and expect even higher sales next FY on top of that. A price cut doesn't appear to be sufficient to top last year to me given the console's recent YOY drops accompanied by its natural aging and saturation.

It's pretty much a foregone conclusion that they'll meet their 15 million projection. They still thought they would hit it when they gave their quarterly report in February, and projecting for the next 2 months is barely even projecting. Most of the retail orders would have already been placed by then. If you're referring to the year on year comparisons from the past few weeks, they're all somewhat anomolous. March last year was simply quite good because of all of the major releases (GOW3, FFXIII, Hokuto Musuo, Yakuza 4, Torne). Up until March the YOY declines were relatively minimal and if you look at future weeks in 2010 from April onward you'll notice that it's mostly easy comparisons.