1) This article is a year old... exactly... how did someone even find this to post? Consumer behavior trends that isn't short term isn't that reliable.

2) What a consumer says they plan on doing and what they do are often different.

3) They say to realize those sales it'd have to be about the same price as the 360 and Wii...  I don't think you can really say the PS3 qualifies as that yet.

Severance said: if you read the title. you'd think "Then why the heck they are buying it with no PS3?"

Damn you! You stole my reply! (kind of) I was just going to say "Well, they'll have a hard time playing it then."

Did anyone read the full atricle?

This analyst must have been writing pre-Slim because he was saying GoW III will release late 2009 / early 2010. Obviously that means this analysis hasn't taken into account the slim launch and the release of GoW collection (in the USA). The Analyst is maybe picking that pricecut and GoW III would hit at a similar time (whereas Uncharted 2 and price cut hit at a similar time instead).

I'm thinking, with Slim's 5 month selling period prior to GoW III release (and a slight effect from CoW collection) that ratio will have gone down to something more like 1:7 or 1:8. On a 1 million 1st week that could still mean a 100-125K boost.

But I'm sure the analyst wasn't too far off when he first made that statement.

1) This article is a year old... exactly... how did someone even find this to post? Consumer behavior trends that isn't short term isn't that reliable.

2) What a consumer says they plan on doing and what they do are often different.

3) They say to realize those sales it'd have to be about the same price as the 360 and Wii...  I don't think you can really say the PS3 qualifies as that yet.