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Sales - WW UP 23rd July - View Post

binary solo said:
CGI-Quality said:
Rafux said:
God of War 3 is kicking ass! Are stores selling it for $20 or what?

$14.99 at GameStop. Still, it's a fantastic result when you think about it. Means people are still interested, not to mention it's shattering much of the doubt it had pre-release.

I remember predicting 4.5mill in it's lifetime. At this rate, that may be too low.

Well I haven't bought it yet and I will be, maybe next year. Along with the GoW collection since I haven't played GoWII.

I just want to pause from looking at the week's sales and look at how much the big picture has changed. How many people truly believed that PS3 would be the highest selling home console for a 6 month stretch? I certainly never saw it. I thought PS3 would remain behind Wii in medium term sales until Wii2 (now WiiU) came along.

I still think Wii will take the holidays globally. The price cut now lead to a short term surge in sales, but I think a lot of potential buyers are still eyeing Christmas for buying Wii. But I wonder if the holiday win will be enough to claw back the lead PS3 will have built up over the first 9-10 months. 360 should win the annual sales (and even possibly christmas sales in Americas, but I think globally the contest for first place in 2011 is Wii vs PS3.

For this week, we are pretty much in the doldrums HW sales wise and yet the 3 home consoles are still pulling >100K numbers each. That's pretty good because as I recall it at this time of year the 3rd placed console (and even 2nd placed) is commonly below 100K for the week. Remember PS3 pulling mid 70's pre-remodel/price cut?


PS3 has been getting great software all year long. ME2, LBP2, Portal2, Crysis2, Infamous 2, (i see a pattern), Killzone3, MvsC3, Mortal Kombat, those are just the games i played. I know im missing a few. And Wii got, Lost in Shadow, Wii PLay Motion and a Mario SPorts Mix and some shovelware. Thats it.