Sony price cuts - PS3 $249, PSP €99 (Europe)

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Seece said:

CGI-Quality said:

Scoobes said:
Not that suprising really. I always find it hilarious when these price cut threads start though, people immediately say "Microsoft/Sony (delete as applicable) will cut in a few weeks!". I don't think this has ever happened, lol. As always, the rival console manufacturer will spend a long time analysing the situation and if they do cut, it will have been planned for a long time.

Indeed, it's a rampant assumption that hardly (if ever) comes to fruition. Microsoft won't cut before the Gears & Star Wars consoles are out anyway (unless they slash $50-$100 off the asking prices of these Limited Edition bundles, which I don't see happening). Therefore, a 2012 cut of some sort is likely, with the PS3 winning the holidays WW, but maybe just matching or trailing the 360 in NA.

Matching the X360 in NA? LOL I don't think so ..

 

Console	Weekly (change)	Total
X360	92,596	(-5%)	24,723,619
DS	88,634	(+5%)	47,889,668
Wii	74,087	(-20%)	34,444,762
PS3	61,536	(-6%)	15,468,384
PSP	60,919	(+113%)	20,326,393
PS2	21,150	(-2%)	54,494,252

Week before DS price cut in Americas

Console	Weekly (change)	Total
DS	108,912	(-13%)	48,372,514
X360	96,683	(-7%)	25,195,292
PS3	81,864	(-1%)	15,799,448
Wii	61,067	(+2%)	34,696,730
PSP	32,212	(-2%)	20,466,212
PS2	19,085	(+4%)	54,571,393

3 weeks after DS price cut in Americas

Console	Weekly (change)	Total
X360	92,938	(+23%)	31,327,847
3DS	80,598	(-25%)	670,702
DS	79,427	(+5%)	54,684,380
PS3	63,635	(+3%)	19,473,108
Wii	62,644	(+6%)	40,531,723
PSP	21,814	(-8%)	21,945,125
PS2	19,378	(-4%)	55,756,199

4 weeks before Wii price cut in Americas (before they actually announced it)

Console	Weekly (change)	Total
X360	79,351	(-1%)	32,219,264
DS	73,748	(+13%)	55,352,040
Wii	67,819	(-11%)	41,316,176
PS3	54,829	(-12%)	20,093,871
3DS	32,516	(-26%)	1,044,952
PSP	23,863	(-3%)	22,178,170
PS2	17,413	(-2%)	55,959,678

6 weeks after price cut.

Like I said in the other thread, 360's grip on North America is very tenuous. It's probably closing in on what DS's household installbase was last year and will be at the same point that the Wii was some time early next year.