| BenVTrigger said: @Baalzamon You make some fair points but the holiday season is driven by far by the casual consumer. 360 is gonna win in NA in a big way this holiday I can 100% guarantee you that. Perhaps by the largest margin it ever has even WITH a PS3 price drop. Look at Sony's holiday lineup. Uncharted, Resistance, etc. Those titles do nothing to draw in a casual consumer. In NA MS will have a very strong casual lineup with Kinect. People keep forgetting that Kinect is here to stay and has done respectable all year and is gonna do huge over the holiday with Kinect Sports 2, Dance Central 2, etc. Not to mention multi-plats in NA pretty much always benefit the 360 and MW3 and Battlefield 3 and even Skyrim to a lesser extent will do wonders for the console. Its not 360's NA holiday I'm worried about that is in the bag and will be perhaps its biggest ever with multiple bundles like Kinect + Star Wars and the Gears and Kinect bundles. That being said I do expect Sony to obliterate the 360 in continental Europe which is why I'm really unsure of what MS's next move will be. I'm not sure what the WW gap is going to be between the two weekly will be. I fully expect Sony may be huge in Europe this holiday and it may counteract 360's domination of NA. Only time will tell I guess. |
I really do think you are overestimating the power of the stuff releasing on the 360 though. Microsoft already had Kinect last year. Microsoft already had titles for Kinect that appealed to the casual audience. My question is how having those again this year will make Microsoft be even more sucessful than last year.
Even though most people have just started to ignore it, the price cut on the Wii will also make that a VERY attractible item for the casual audience for holiday sales, potentially taking away some of the Xbox 360 sales.
PS3, however, will be similar to last year, plus have a $50 price cut, which it did not have last year.
Without a price cut for the Xbox 360, I truly do see the PS3 winning this holiday season not only for WW sales, but also for sales in NA.
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