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MontanaHatchet on 12 June 2008
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Squilliam said:
MontanaHatchet said:
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Squilliam said:
I had a look at the recent sales. A trend started mid may 2008 that looks significant.

Total number of HD consoles sold = stagnant at 100k

But it looks like the people who would have otherwise purchased PS3s are now buying Xbox360. (The economic situation starting to kick in?)

Long term, its very good for the Xbox360 and very bad for the PS3 in the United States.

Bahh, the economy is no worse than it was a month or two ago, save for gas prices. It mainly has to do with the fact that the 40 gig is a god awful deal compared to the 80 gig.

 


Sales dropped by a third due to knowledge of the more expensive 80gb's return when people are trying to spend less money and not more?


Oh cmon. I just said it's a better deal. As in a better value. Just because it has a higher price doesn't mean that it doesn't have more to offer. It doesn't make sense that this knowledge would be so widespread as to justify such a slump in games.

As for the lineups, not all of those games may even come out in 2008. Halo Wars has a very vague release date lineup, and Fable 2 doesn't have an announced release data either. And what's this MMORPG? I haven't heard of it. Is it Age of Conan? If so, don't get too excited. What's the history for MMOs on consoles anyways? And releasing sequels is not going to expand your userbase all that much.


All the games I listed were new for this current generation. Half new, half old IP overall. More importantly these games give the Xbox360 the action RPG crown and target gamers that haven't been targeted yet. This is much more important than releasing a new FPS into the already crowded genre.

 

I assume you meant a slump in hardware, not games.  In which case I would say that the slump was actually very slight, and that a lot of PS3 owners or prospective owners are people from a more hardcore crowd. So while the majority of Wii or DS owners wouldn't know if a new SKU was coming out or not, plenty of PS3 owners know about the 80 gig, especially those who follow a franchise as hardcore as Metal Gear Solid 4. Why else do you think sales would decrease when such an important game is soon to be released?

And really, while the games you listed can boost 360 sales, they'll never truly push them. At this point in its lifecycle, a lot of Xbox owners have upgraded or moved to the Wii (or possibly PS3, but that's very unlikely). The only prospective owners at this point would most likely be casual gamers, who are going to looks for games like DDR (which the 360 has). Microsoft has realized this and that's why they're focusing on reaching larger demographics with the X-Mote and Banjo 3 (of course those attempts will fail, but what are you gonna do?).