PSN outage Begins to Hit Retail

[Reasonable]

kurasakiichimaru said:

Reasonable said:

Bound to happen.  Question is are we talking a volume of units enough to matter much?  I'd guess probably not.

If 1000 people a week more than usual were swapping PS3s for 360s that would be irrelivent unless it was a sustained effect given in the UK alone we're talking about a tiny fraction of much larger install bases.

Really, for this to be a worry you'd need to be looking at many thousands swapping a week - and that seems very unlikly to be the case.

Exactly, percentage is very misleading.

The obvious analogy is the 360 sales in Japan.  During Golden Week it got a 200% ish jump from around 2000 to 4000 units - a great percentage jump but in unit terms actually irrelevant.

I'm almost certain if we could see the unit values for PS3 to 360 trade ins we'd see the same thing.  Great percentage, irrelevant in unit terms.

Not that it won't be happing, PS3 is bound to see a dip in HW/SW sales for a while and the 360 will see a mild boost (maybe too mild to register at a total unit level) but its very probable that at a unit level we're only talking some thousands of units which unless it's sustained doesn't matter.