EMEAA Up! 1st October

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Seece said:

The bump this week was due to the holidays very slowly starting to ramp up. I don't have any figures on EMEAA this week but a guess would say if it's down it won't be much, what with holidays approaching and riding the coatails of Forza, Fifa and Gears.

Edit - oh forgot, forza isn't even out this week! I doubt Rage/Dark Souls will do much for 360

Seems a mite early for holiday kick to start, isn't it more like mid-late Oct? None of our retailers have started hanging up the Christmas stuff yet.

What sort of HW lift do you expect for Forza 4? It's a good selling franchise, but being the 3rd of the gen does it have much HW spiking potential? There are surely still quite a few white 360's out in the wild and perhaps some people wait for a particular game to launch to swap to a 360s, so many 360 exclusives could see HW spikes for this reason, F4 among them. I don't really see sim racers (of any kind) being the sort of game that excites new console buyers, not at this point in the lifecycle at least.

Been seeing some pretty awesome PS3 deals lately:  320GB sku + Move starter pack + Sports Champs for NZD$499 (*0.77 for USD). That's almost $100 cheaper than the vanilla 160GB before the price cut. Nice for the historically high NZ dollar to finally be reflected in the retail price for PS3. Not sure if 360 price here is also trending down because of the current exchange rate.