Activision Responds to Modern Warfare 3s Weak January NPD Numbers

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VGKing said:

reviniente said:

SolJustice said:

reviniente said:

I thought he might credit Black Ops with actually having a single player campaign with a plot and creative multi-player maps. For me, it is the better game. As for pricing policies, whatever the hell that means, I found this quite revealing:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3  $39.99

Call of Duty: Black Ops  $45.98

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim  $59.96

 

Interesting. What are those numbers, the SRP during the holiday season, or for January, or what (if you don't mind me asking)?

Those are the prices at Amazon.com as in 'right now'. They've been like that, for MW3 since Dec '11 and for Black Ops for more than a year. Skyrim hasn't drop a cent and doing just fine at No. 27 in their Top 100 list.

Skryim has dropped to $39.99 a couple of times though....

on amazon.com skyrim dropped to $49.99 one day near Christmas, but never below. MW3 has been $40 more often than $60 since the new year. I am also almost positive, the big US retailers never had even a small sale for skyrim, but I've seen all of them have sales for MW3.

This is why I think this happened. Skyrim sales have exceeded expectations and thus none of the retailers had excessive amount of stock they needed to sell. MW3 on the other hand had the problem that initially it was selling better than black ops. That probably made retailers expect continued strong sales, and stock accordingly, so the huge January drop hit them hard, forced them to cut prices because they had a lot of excess stock.