PS3 UP YOY in USA with NO big exclusives. What gives?

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enrageorange said:

pezus said:

man-bear-pig said:
The X360 is facing market saturation which is causing its sales to decrease. The PS3, however, doesn't have market saturation yet and is still experiencing good sales.

What if we take 360 out of the equation and view the PS3 sales in a vacuum? You'd expect it to sell very well but why did the sales even go UP?

Last year the $200 ps3 bundles actually sold out everywhere very quickly. 

This year they were in stock in some stores even past black friday. Considering the massive shipment increase the ps3 showed for the end of September it seems that last year sony didn't meet the demand for $200 ps3s but this year they were able to.

As to why they didn't ship enough ps3s last year, I would guess last year PS3s weren't profitable at $200, but this year they were so sony had no reason to not try to sell as many as possible at that price, that or sony simply underestimated demand last year.

I second your views