| S____M____C____C said: By the way...... Terms such as 'strongest' and 'weakest' are context-bound. So, it all depends on the context (market share or units sold for example). None of you are factually right. |
Correct! Strong/Weak or whatever can only be judged based on specified criteria. UK is Sony's best market in Europe in terms of sales volume but is Sony's weakest marketing in Europe in terms of competitive ranking, for example. Too many people seem to be comparing apples to oranges in this thread by arguing based on their chosen criteria against other's chosen criteria.
As for the sales life, 65% for the price change, time of year and complete lack of any new SW is pretty good. The baseline sales should settle higher and holiday and demand around big releases will be up as well.
While they have lower volume sales the combined effect over EMEAA should be pretty decent and percentage wise might well be better than 65% in some territories.
I'd imagine Sony will be happy enough with this result. At the same time I doubt it will make MS feel they have to knee-jerk response and I'm sure they'll wait for a while now to see where the baseline settles and how things look going forward before even considering a price cut themselves.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
