Analyst: 360 Needs More Than a Price Cut

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crumas2 said:

ksv said:

kowenicki said:

RolStoppable said:
This analyst is stating the obvious. What has been said that you can't agree with?

The 360 lost momentum in the sense that it's outsold by both competitors this year and the price cut in Europe showed that Microsoft needs indeed more than a price cut, if they want to have better sustained hardware sales than Sony.

The sad thing is that analysts get paid for saying things we already knew since months.

how is an increase in sales a loss of momentum???? 360 sales are up year on year for 07 and 08.

 

You are kidding, right? They are losing marketshare. That matters a lot more than an increase in raw sales.

 

This is simple math.  The first console on the scene will start at and retain 100% marketshare for that generation until another console hits the market.  When competitors show up, the first console will lose marketshare unless the competition sells zero consoles.  Please explain how MS could have remained at 100% market share after the Wii and PS3 were released.

 

You make it sound like MS is only losing market share because it started out at 100%.  The fact of the matter is it is being outsold by Wii and PS3 on a weekly basis and so even if they all started with equal market share (33.33% each) it would still be losing market share.