Jay520 on 23 July 2012
| Conegamer said: Sigh...I had a really lengthy post here, but it's deleted for whatever reason. Crazy. Anyway, I failed in my calculations. If the PS3 sells, on average, 130k per week until the holidays, it'll sell an extra 2.08mil from now to October 31st, leaving it at 6.88mil with 2 months to go. Selling 500k then 750k, on AVERAGE, it'll hit 11.88mil by the end of the year, not 10-11mil. 11-12mil seems more realistic. And the Slim redesign will boost sales by about 100k, no-one really wanted one. But the pricecut could help, another 500k? But sales drop beforehand anyway (read: 3DS), so the overall increase will be around 450k over other figures. The market is saturated, people want new stuff. The Wii has reached it, the 360 is starting to suffer. The PS3 will hit it soon. And when it does, nothing (new games, price cuts) can save it. |
The PS3 is only down 12% YoY for the year. I can't understand how you expect it to be down drastically more than that figure for the second half of the year with the Slim / price cut. At worst, it'll remain stagnant and stay down 12% YoY, which would leave it at approximately 12.5m. That's a worst case scenario. The second half of this year is almost certainly going to have a better YoY than the first half of this year. That should really be obvious.
