BenVTrigger said:
Squilliam said:
BenVTrigger said:
Ps3 doing very nice.
If MS doesnt do a huge price drop WW then they will concede 2nd to the PS3. A huge price drop for 360 down to $99 might hold off Sony long enough but other than that looks like the 360 is really slowing. At least acording to VGC. It will be interesting to see what NPD shows |
They don't seem to be in the mood to cut the price any further from what I have read. They may or may not cut the price it really depends on their priorities, they cut the price in 2008 when noone expected as deep a cut and they refused to cut the price in response to the PS3 cut to $249 when everyone expected one. I think perhaps it depends on how popular their 'finance' deal is with people and their appetite for lower margins and/or profits.
Another point we should consider is that they have been putting more effort into 'others' regions in the world lately like Brazil for instance so given the large proportion of sales attributed there in these charts a swing there could totally change the results as these regions have very little coverage.
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I agree that profit is more important than marketshare at this point but I keep remembering at E3 when MS strait up said they will outsell the PS3 this generation.
Nothing short of a massive price drop at this point will ensure that. Unless the tracking in Europe and Others here is wrong it appears Sony is rapidly gaining
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They'd probably get away with reducing the price marginally and upgrading the flash memory of the Arcade to say 16GB. If they sold the Arcade for say $169 and the 250GB for $249 with the equilalent reduction elsewhere that ought to be enough to boost the sales 15% or thereabouts if they did it towards the start of this year.
I do wonder about the tracking a little given the fact that we don't know precisely how many PS3s Sony are shipping anymore and given the announcement by Microsoft that the Xbox 360 was the best selling console in 2011 which makes the PS3 lead shown here for this year a little questionable since nothing has really changed between 2011 and 2012. Sony's release schedule was pretty light this year so you can't really say it was all them so called most amazing first party games evah swaying people.
