Worldwide Up 10 September 2011

[thismeintiel]

theprof00 said:

ethomaz said:

theprof00 said:
It's hard to feel happy for ps3 when I know the sales are easily erasable.
For instance, when ps3 went to 300$ and slim, the sale lead over 360 was almost completely erased by the end of Christmas. A 1 point something million lead gone like that.

Sure? If I remember the GAP was 8 million before slim and 4 million after Christmas.

Oct-Dec sales of 2009: 6,897,278 (PS3) > 4,979,188 (360)

I guess Sony will never repeat these sales over 360 in that period... Slim was a beast .

I must be thinking about that first drop to 400 then.

That must be what you are thinking about.  And that was in '07, the same year MS came out with the 3 model/price startegy.  They also dropped the price of their consoles not too long after Sony dropped the PS3's, the Arcade to $280, the Pro to $350, and the Elite to $450.  So it's not hard to see why MS was able to start to widen the gap again.  This year, it's going to take a little more to widen that gap.