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kowenicki said:

Xenostar said:

kowenicki said:

Xenostar said:

kowenicki said:

Zlejedi said:

kowenicki said:

3ds is not very inspiring.

Really, really poor hardware numbers elsewhere...

YOY:

Wii: DOWN 57%  (wow)

PS3: DOWN 32%

360: DOWN 26%

PS2: DOWN 64%

 

DS: DOWN 67%

PSP: DOWN 65%

 

and software? - DOWN 24%

 

AWFUL! 

All systems already saturated current price points and people are waiting for price drops. If all three price drop by at least 50 euro we will be looking at YoY increases very fast.

 

Perhaps... but for how long?  A price drop isnt going to double Wii sales to take them to last years numbers for any sustained period.  No chance.

At best price cuts will help match last years numbers for perhaps the PS3, the rest are looking at being down this year in EMEAA.

The gen is shrinking, dont care what people say about magical price points.

After 5 years youd expect any Gen to be in decline in terms of year on year hardware sales, but it will decline over a couple of years happily while software makers happily ride out the huge install base, i think software is down just like all industrys are down with the world wide money problems, just today Portugal are now asking to be bailed out by the EU financially. 

Also until PS3 has its price reduced to 199 or less in $, £ and Euros i dont think weve seen its peak year. Magical price points for luxury items do exist. 

$199 is $259 in todays money

 

I dont think it is, i know with inflation magic price points should follow suit, but i really dont think they do, the point of a magic price is that mentally it doesnt seem like a big number and a price starting with a 1 is a massive part of that. Its also the price point where you start to get a decent amount of impulse purchases, which certainly over 250 i certainly dont think youll get.

Well it is...  inflation from 2010 in the US to now is 30% plus.

You are referring to the PS2.  The price drop of the PS2 happened after 2 years, the timing and price point are massively important.  The PS3 is now closer to 5 years.

Go here for some further reading.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=126716&page=1&str=1140247666#23

30% since 2010? Impossible! That's 3rd world inflation. From 2010 to now I'd think 4-5% inflation max. Or are you meaning 2001? then 30% would make sense.

I think you'd be spot on with the $259 thing, if it weren't for the GFC. The affordability of consumer electronic goods has gone down with people being a lot more careful with their money. So in the current climate I don't think any alleged magic price point has gone up from $199. The influence of the magic price point on PS3/360 sales is questionable too.

Anyhoo, looks like the mid year sales drop has really kicked in. Won't be long before 360 falls way behind it's WW 2010 weekly sales when the 2010 phat price cut and Slim launch kick in. Wii's annual sales are falling away fast, and PS3 is going to hover in that 25-35% down range by the looks of things. Price cut for all the systems will mean 2h11 will be better for PS3 than 2h10, but for Wii nothing can bring it back up even to 2010 sales. Hard to know whether 360 price cut will boost sales beyond last year, will be an interesting one to watch.

Very nice 2nd week hold over for Crysis 2 on both consoles. I think Crytek will be please with its move to consoles, even though the PC hardcore are not. Homefront continuing to defy gravity, way to spit in the eye of the critics THQ.