ioi said:
Not really sure what your point is? This gen is coming to an end - everything is slowing but price cuts will keep sales reasonably healthy for another year or two - there is a lot of room for price cuts in all cases. What will really accelerate declines is new consoles, Nintendo are obviously gearing up with Wii 2 and I imagine this time next year Sony and MS will be getting ready to reveal the new PS and Xbox so yes - things are obviously going to start slowing now, we have reached the peak - but this gen should push past 100m easily before it is through. |
I think kowenicki is referring to how there are many still holding to the "80% of sales take place when a console reaches mass market pricing i.e. $199 or less". So many are preaching that the PS3 hasn't seen its biggest sales yet because it hasn't reached that price point.
Yet what these numbers are showing is that, despite not reaching that price point, the total sales this gen are comparable or more than last gen and so saturation has reached a similar point to last gen without a mass market price point being reached for one of the consoles.
The poll results are showing that there are many on this site that still feel that the likely price cuts this year will cause a long and meaningful increase in sales despite the saturation. Kow disagrees and that's what he means.
Is this right, kowenicki?
