| Sky Render said: @Stever89 It's that I'm a very casual market analyst of the video game console market. I find economics and marketing to be fascinating, particularly in an industry like this one. The Wii's such a huge disurbance in the flow of the market that it's really caught my interest in terms of effective console marketing tactics. |
And I find business strategy and sales trends fascinating. Together, we are one! The Wii was what got me back into console gaming, and since I find sales trends interesting, I've done an analysis on it to help people understand the basics, though I've been working on updating the statistics, so one can just be bombarded with stats, like mean, variance, etc. All very fascinating. Friends?
@Avinash_Tyagi: The problem is we don't really know how big this market is. It could be 20 million people (which I feel is too few), it could be John Lucas' 250 million or whatever (though I feel that's a big high, for many reasons, mostly production limits). We just don't know. As such, at least for me, I have to go with what I can show, and that's past sales data, and also that production is topped at 21 million a year. That's why I am eagerly awaiting the end of this year, to know better what demand is like (which I believe will be tremendous, but I cant really prove that besides my gut), and to know how much (if any) Nintendo will raise production. This really is a fascinating year to watch sales.
On topic since I don't even know if I ever addressed it: I feel the Wii will eventually pass the PS2, simply because it'll be on the market for as long as the PS2 will/has/is/etc, and since I believe the Wii will outsell the PS2 each comparative year, the Wii will outsell the PS2.
