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AussieGecko on 18 February 2011
LivingMetal said:
pezus said:

Why does 360 keep increasing randomly in Americas?


Kinect, casual gamers.


I am going with this as well, helps with the stock coming back in as well so said audiences can get it.



 

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NotStan on 18 February 2011
Alby_da_Wolf said:

So... Pachter was right again! And as usual, men of little faith didn't believe him! Vox clamantis in deserto! 

BTW, what if MS moneyhats Nintendo enough to get New Super Mario Kinect? 


It'll rain shit and people will buy Kinects by truckloads.

Although it wouldn't make any sense, no matter how big the reward is, it's like giving away your best weapons to your opposition lol :L. You may have money but they'll be armed to the teeth, so they'll just mug you to get the money back.



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Michael-5 on 18 February 2011
Gilgamesh said:
Michael-5 said:
Gilgamesh said:
Michael-5 said:
Pavolink said:

*See Wii #s*

Oh boy...

Nah, Wii will see a price cut, and get crazy sales this fall with Zelda as well, and maybe a limited edition green Wii.

However until E3, I think the HD consoles will continually outsell the Wii, PS3 will need a few weeks to surpass Wii in Americas, but it wll happen. 360 should also be above Wii soon in EMEAA.


What happens if the PS3 and X360 gets a price cut aswell? (which is very likely to happen this year).

I think a Wii pricecut will be more beneficial to the Wii then an HD price cut to the HD systems.

But the last Wii price cut didn't do a whole lot for it and it even had a lot of big games during the holidays and yet it was still down YOY. Especially right now when the HD consoles are doing so well a pice cut would really push it over the Wii. I mean the Wii is already cheap  compared to the HD consoles, which would you think people are going to be more exicted for  to be cheaper the Wii ($200), PS3 ($300 - $400) or X360 ($200 - $300)?

Yea, but a $150 Wii would still be a cool secondary console. I doubt software is the problem, Nintendo has enough studios to easily make more Wii's. Also If you allign Wii and PS2 sales, you will see Wii has been outselling PS2 every year by 3 million or so. This year, PS2 got a price cut and it's sales jumped to 18 million. So assuming Wii gets a price cut, I think at worst it should match last years 20 million sales. Even with a price cut, I don't see PS3 or 360 toping 15 million, maybe 14 million, but thats the best.

Also the year Wii got a price cut last, wasn't that Wii's strongest year?



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trestres on 18 February 2011
Michael-5 said:
Gilgamesh said:
Michael-5 said:
Gilgamesh said:
Michael-5 said:
Pavolink said:

*See Wii #s*

Oh boy...

Nah, Wii will see a price cut, and get crazy sales this fall with Zelda as well, and maybe a limited edition green Wii.

However until E3, I think the HD consoles will continually outsell the Wii, PS3 will need a few weeks to surpass Wii in Americas, but it wll happen. 360 should also be above Wii soon in EMEAA.


What happens if the PS3 and X360 gets a price cut aswell? (which is very likely to happen this year).

I think a Wii pricecut will be more beneficial to the Wii then an HD price cut to the HD systems.

But the last Wii price cut didn't do a whole lot for it and it even had a lot of big games during the holidays and yet it was still down YOY. Especially right now when the HD consoles are doing so well a pice cut would really push it over the Wii. I mean the Wii is already cheap  compared to the HD consoles, which would you think people are going to be more exicted for  to be cheaper the Wii ($200), PS3 ($300 - $400) or X360 ($200 - $300)?

Yea, but a $150 Wii would still be a cool secondary console. I doubt software is the problem, Nintendo has enough studios to easily make more Wii's. Also If you allign Wii and PS2 sales, you will see Wii has been outselling PS2 every year by 3 million or so. This year, PS2 got a price cut and it's sales jumped to 18 million. So assuming Wii gets a price cut, I think at worst it should match last years 20 million sales. Even with a price cut, I don't see PS3 or 360 toping 15 million, maybe 14 million, but thats the best.

Also the year Wii got a price cut last, wasn't that Wii's strongest year?


Wii didn't sell 20 million last year, it sold 18.3 million.
Wii's best year wasn't 2009 (21.6 million) when it got the price cut. It was 2008 with 24.4 million sales. So sales went down 3 million even with a price cut. I don't think a price cut will have a big impact because the other manufacturers will cut the pricde too.



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Michael-5 on 18 February 2011
trestres said:
Michael-5 said:
Gilgamesh said:
Michael-5 said:
Gilgamesh said:
Michael-5 said:
Pavolink said:

*See Wii #s*

Oh boy...

Nah, Wii will see a price cut, and get crazy sales this fall with Zelda as well, and maybe a limited edition green Wii.

However until E3, I think the HD consoles will continually outsell the Wii, PS3 will need a few weeks to surpass Wii in Americas, but it wll happen. 360 should also be above Wii soon in EMEAA.


What happens if the PS3 and X360 gets a price cut aswell? (which is very likely to happen this year).

I think a Wii pricecut will be more beneficial to the Wii then an HD price cut to the HD systems.

But the last Wii price cut didn't do a whole lot for it and it even had a lot of big games during the holidays and yet it was still down YOY. Especially right now when the HD consoles are doing so well a pice cut would really push it over the Wii. I mean the Wii is already cheap  compared to the HD consoles, which would you think people are going to be more exicted for  to be cheaper the Wii ($200), PS3 ($300 - $400) or X360 ($200 - $300)?

Yea, but a $150 Wii would still be a cool secondary console. I doubt software is the problem, Nintendo has enough studios to easily make more Wii's. Also If you allign Wii and PS2 sales, you will see Wii has been outselling PS2 every year by 3 million or so. This year, PS2 got a price cut and it's sales jumped to 18 million. So assuming Wii gets a price cut, I think at worst it should match last years 20 million sales. Even with a price cut, I don't see PS3 or 360 toping 15 million, maybe 14 million, but thats the best.

Also the year Wii got a price cut last, wasn't that Wii's strongest year?


Wii didn't sell 20 million last year, it sold 18.3 million.
Wii's best year wasn't 2009 (21.6 million) when it got the price cut. It was 2008 with 24.4 million sales. So sales went down 3 million even with a price cut. I don't think a price cut will have a big impact because the other manufacturers will cut the pricde too.

Oh hm... Wii must have been adjusted with the 360 in January, I remember it just breaking 20 million.

Well you make a good point, and I really can't argue with it, but right now Wii is a $200 SD console. I think in 2006 the console was worth more because HD tv's were still pricy, but now they aren't so people are probably switching to HD consoles. So I think a pricecut on Wii could really help them out. To be honest, I dunno, I hope Wii sells well, Nintendo deserves to be ontop.



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Conegamer on 18 February 2011
darthdevidem01 said:
TT Makaveli said:

man Xbox is eating their competitors...sad thing for Wii...for PS3 isnt that bad because it rarely sold better than the Xbox in america...but still my opinion is that Sony should do something over there...i think Sony is a little bit too optimistic with KZ3...maybe Sony think this will have a little impact and yes it will maybe have...but only for one week and Xbox is outselling PS 2:1...and Killzone will never push like 60-70k more consoles over there ^^

Price price price

$299 is where PS3 is at, thats where PS2 launched. Lets be happy to see PS3 doing this well worldwide despite that.

Wait till $199...

It won't reach $199 until the PS4 is released, or for AT LEAST another 3-4 years. Then the console will be pretty much dead so the impact of a price cut wouldn't be that large anyway...



 

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Alby_da_Wolf on 18 February 2011
NotStan said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

So... Pachter was right again! And as usual, men of little faith didn't believe him! Vox clamantis in deserto! 

BTW, what if MS moneyhats Nintendo enough to get New Super Mario Kinect? 


It'll rain shit and people will buy Kinects by truckloads.

Although it wouldn't make any sense, no matter how big the reward is, it's like giving away your best weapons to your opposition lol :L. You may have money but they'll be armed to the teeth, so they'll just mug you to get the money back.

No? Ninty could port or develop JUST ONE MARIO GAME for Kinect.
 It would be better than the typical drug deal "first dose is free", as Ninty would get paid also for the first dose, but after it the addicts would have to buy a Nintendo console to avoid withdrawal crises. Devilish, if played well, but I guess MS would make such a deal only if granted more than just one game...



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thx1139 on 18 February 2011
Michael-5 said:
trestres said:
Michael-5 said:

Yea, but a $150 Wii would still be a cool secondary console. I doubt software is the problem, Nintendo has enough studios to easily make more Wii's. Also If you allign Wii and PS2 sales, you will see Wii has been outselling PS2 every year by 3 million or so. This year, PS2 got a price cut and it's sales jumped to 18 million. So assuming Wii gets a price cut, I think at worst it should match last years 20 million sales. Even with a price cut, I don't see PS3 or 360 toping 15 million, maybe 14 million, but thats the best.

Also the year Wii got a price cut last, wasn't that Wii's strongest year?


Wii didn't sell 20 million last year, it sold 18.3 million.
Wii's best year wasn't 2009 (21.6 million) when it got the price cut. It was 2008 with 24.4 million sales. So sales went down 3 million even with a price cut. I don't think a price cut will have a big impact because the other manufacturers will cut the pricde too.

Oh hm... Wii must have been adjusted with the 360 in January, I remember it just breaking 20 million.

Well you make a good point, and I really can't argue with it, but right now Wii is a $200 SD console. I think in 2006 the console was worth more because HD tv's were still pricy, but now they aren't so people are probably switching to HD consoles. So I think a pricecut on Wii could really help them out. To be honest, I dunno, I hope Wii sells well, Nintendo deserves to be ontop.

Key is when Nintendo drops to $150 do they continue to bundle 2 high profile software titles with the system?  As consoles drop in price they become more attractive to people that buy less software new at full retail price. So giving away software hurts more because those people will end up purchasing less.  Give them software with the console and they purchase even less.



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darthdevidem01 on 18 February 2011
Conegamer said:
darthdevidem01 said:
TT Makaveli said:

man Xbox is eating their competitors...sad thing for Wii...for PS3 isnt that bad because it rarely sold better than the Xbox in america...but still my opinion is that Sony should do something over there...i think Sony is a little bit too optimistic with KZ3...maybe Sony think this will have a little impact and yes it will maybe have...but only for one week and Xbox is outselling PS 2:1...and Killzone will never push like 60-70k more consoles over there ^^

Price price price

$299 is where PS3 is at, thats where PS2 launched. Lets be happy to see PS3 doing this well worldwide despite that.

Wait till $199...

It won't reach $199 until the PS4 is released, or for AT LEAST another 3-4 years. Then the console will be pretty much dead so the impact of a price cut wouldn't be that large anyway...

LOLOLOL

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I can't believe you think PS3 won't reach $199 for 3-4 years.



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Xen on 18 February 2011
darthdevidem01 said:
Conegamer said:
darthdevidem01 said:
TT Makaveli said:

man Xbox is eating their competitors...sad thing for Wii...for PS3 isnt that bad because it rarely sold better than the Xbox in america...but still my opinion is that Sony should do something over there...i think Sony is a little bit too optimistic with KZ3...maybe Sony think this will have a little impact and yes it will maybe have...but only for one week and Xbox is outselling PS 2:1...and Killzone will never push like 60-70k more consoles over there ^^

Price price price

$299 is where PS3 is at, thats where PS2 launched. Lets be happy to see PS3 doing this well worldwide despite that.

Wait till $199...

It won't reach $199 until the PS4 is released, or for AT LEAST another 3-4 years. Then the console will be pretty much dead so the impact of a price cut wouldn't be that large anyway...

LOLOLOL

Do a bet with me

I can't believe you think PS3 won't reach $199 for 3-4 years.

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