Signs of Concern?- The Use of Bundles and New Sku's PS3 Worry

[DMeisterJ]

There was no E/O budge in numbers since there's been a steady stream of games that perform well in that market to come out over the last four months.

First it was GT5: P at the end of March, then a month later, GTA IV, and then six weeks later MGS4. There's been a lot of games for Europeans to play on the PS3 over the past few months. And the fact that all of these games were bundled at no cost to the consumer meant that people already had purchased their PS3s prior to the release of MGS4 for the other two titles i previously mentioned.

I think that maybe you're reading far too much into this whole bundling sensation. There's nothing wrong with offering an incentive to bundle a game. Yes, Sony bundled MGS4 with the 80 gig PS3. But they didn't bundle 1.4 million units of it. The game sold on it's own right, and the system sold on it's own right, the bundle only helped push it further to that goal. I would think people would be happy that sales didn't abnormally spike this week (in E/O), cause that'd mean that we'd see abnormally low sales this week, as the effect of a big week would mean less people would buy the system this week, which would be great fodder for all the haters out there...

Nice write up, well written, but somewhat innacurate.