| Farsala said: http://blog.infoscout.co/black-friday-bust-retail-sales-down-13-1-vs-2014/ PS4 doing nicely at both Amazon and Best Buy, so it may yet be up YoY. |
In terms of PS4 revenue per unit we're probably looking at an average sale price this year 20% lower than last year. So unless PS4 unit sales are >20% up on 2014 then revenue from PS4 hardware sales will be down. PS4 software sales should be up because of a bigger install base and more unit sales. So for PS4 at least revenue should be even at least. Xb one though will have tanked revenue-wise. At best Xb one hardware unit sales will be even, but the average sale price this year will be lower, though last year there were a lot more gift card deals on top of the general price cut. But still I think average revenue per box will be down. So flat or lower YoY unit sales and lower average unit price = Xb one revenue substantially down, and possibly Software not able to make up the difference. The NPD report is going to be very interesting from a revenue perspective.
Looks like Wii U up YoY at the same average price per unit, so Wii U may be the only hardware that is up both by revenue and units sold. Nitendo mught be bad at a lot of things, but it is good at maintaining sales without dropping prices.
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