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Forums - Sales - 360 to sell 50m through retail by end of 2010? Lets track it......

donsterydo2 on 06 November 2010

First US launch and then UE launch so for at least  4 weeks it will be doing better than needed. The question is how many units above the needed level it will sell.



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thx1139 on 06 November 2010
nickvasko said:

i doubt it will sell that much by years end


This is what I hate about these forums beyond the pure trolls.  All signs point to the 360 actually doing it yet a simple comment without any reason behind it.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

nickvasko on 06 November 2010
thx1139 said:
nickvasko said:

i doubt it will sell that much by years end


This is what I hate about these forums beyond the pure trolls.  All signs point to the 360 actually doing it yet a simple comment without any reason behind it.

why im a troll? cant i have an opinion? the reason i said it is because i dont see the xbox selling 6m in two months, i may be proven wrong and i might be right. either way nobody knows for certain



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Edouble24 on 06 November 2010

360 will do this easily. It's going to have a monster holiday season this year.



bannedagain on 06 November 2010

What are your thoughts of next week ww sales of xbox?

I'm going with 368,500 

Lets hope so.



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Squilliam on 06 November 2010
kowenicki said:

OP updated

360 is just 10,904 behind schedule and therefore should be able to get quite a bit above it in the coming weeks.  The next 4 weeks in the US will be enormous.

50m incoming.

I have to agree. The Xbox 360 is about where I expected it to be. It has kept its relative rate of sales steady compared to 2008 so it is in a perfect position to exceed what was achieved in 2008 over the final 9-10 weeks of the year. Next week ought to put the 360 at least a hundred thousand ahead of 2008 if not more.



Tease.

donsterydo2 on 07 November 2010
bannedagain said:

What are your thoughts of next week ww sales of xbox?

I'm going with 368,500 

Lets hope so.


I'll say 320k



bannedagain on 07 November 2010
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well, there is a factor in the 360 reaching 50 million--

 

if Nintendo does cut the price on the Wii, it will KILL Kinect sales

 

so a Wii price cut would do two things: increase Wii hardware sales, AND destroy Kinect sales

 

I'm not saying that Nintendo will cut the price of the Wii.

 

I'm saying that if Nintendo did cut the price of the Wii, parents would see a $ 150 Wii versus a $ 300 KInect bundle.  Which one do you think they will buy?

Especially in this economy.

It would absolutely kill Kinect.

 

Personally, I think Nintendo would be dumb not to cut the price, and soon.

I honestly think if Nintendo cut the Wii price, MS will monitor first 3 weeks of sale and if it's not as they'd hope, they'll cut for black friday.

 

I don't know about that....

 

That would make Microsoft look really bad....

 

Here they are, marketing and releasing a brand new product--Kinect--at a price they'll already state in commercials (in the next month or so).  And now, after the Wii cuts the price, MS will say in commercials "we are dropping the price!!"

 

That would look really bad ,

to me anyway

Well I know what you mean, it will look like a failed product, legally though they won't be allowed to even call it a price cut after 3 weeks (at least in this country, product needs to have had the previous price for at least 3 months, IIRC) so I imagine the majority of people Kinect is actually aimed at will think no less than "oh that's nice, the price has gone down!", the people that bought it in the first 3 weeks would get a rebate/refund on their money more than likely. Anyway I was actually talking about the 360 getting a price cut not Kinect. Of which they havn't cut the arcade price in 2 years now.

 

the thing about Kinect is....

 

the way life works is....

well if you go back to before the Wii released, everyone said that the Wii will be a huge huge failure, it is doomed, and  they laughed at the Wii, and look at what happened?  The Wii was an incredible success

 

Now, before Kinect releases, everyone is saying Kinect will be a huge gigantic success and sell tons of 360s....

so if you look at the trend, you can see what's going to happen, life is just unpredictable.....

 

It's just setting everyone up for big disappointment....

 

the Kinect software lineup is very weak, and it just doesn't have a killer app like the Wii had with Wii Sports

 

it may push some hardware in the beginning because of the new-ness, but unless the Kinect experience is extremely COMPELLING, Kinect sales will fade fast

 

people are just setting themselves up fro major disappointment

 

 


Or it could be a huge success just like the Wii.

There are huge amounts of hype associated with both releases.  And I have no doubts that the Kinect will boost 360 sales a lot.  Will it hit 50 mil by years end?  I am going to guess and say probably will.

Nice thread.



what?!?

 

almost everyone thought the Wii would fail, and fail miserably, most people thought it was a stupid idea, but look at what happened, the Wii becomes one of the most successful consoles of all time

 

now this time everyone thinks Kinect will be huge and successful, but in life, many times, the opposite happens, again just look at the Wii, because life is unpredictable

If businesses could predict things, Sony or MS would have come up with something like the Wii first, but you cannot predict these things, or else everyone would be successul in business

 

If Nintendo truly saw Kinect as a threat, they would drop the price of the Wii....

because Nintendo could DEFINATELY afford a Wii price cut....hell the Wii was profitable when it first released unlike the PS3 and 360 which took a loss on every console for a while

Nintendo could easily cut the price of the Wii and that would destroy the Kinect launch

 

but just watch....

 

If Nintendo does NOT cut the price of the Wii before the launch of Kinect, it means that Nintendo is SURE that Kinect will not do well, as they don't see Kinect as a threat at all, so they won't cut the price

 

think about it, why wouldn't Nintendo cut the price of the Wii?

Because money is number one and they are still selling enough consoles at it's current price rate.  If they fall off the earth after kinect, we will see a price cut.

no they wouldn't have cut price before kinect because what if they didn't need too. they will always wait it out and see what is the next step.  SMart buisness to wait for your sales to drop off then cut price. Expecially in the position nintendo has put itself into.



bannedagain on 07 November 2010

Kinect in my mind has proven to me it will sell. Two people that played mine and don't own a gaming console are going out to buy it with there next pay day.

It's stupid easy fun with a good challenge in it. it gets addictive.  will sell millions.



Jaywood2010 on 07 November 2010

Its possible. How much do you guys think ps3 will sale