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Will PS3 have its best holiday season ever?

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maybe 20 12.05%
 
we shall see but i dont think it will 96 57.83%
 
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According to someone Sony will anounce the new PS3 slim at TGS, it will be bundled with the most popular franchise in Europe right now: FIFA

 

Fifa+new PS3+possible pricecut

Will it do better than 2010? Will PS3 peak this year?



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It needs a pricecut AND the new Slim. Colours would help, too.

Without a combination of 2 of the above, no chance.



                            

Metallic blue and red=WIN

Why don't Sony release those colors here?



It needs 149€ 16gb price cut, because right now one can get 160gb for 200-210€ in europe. 179€ for 16gb wont do anything.



I'm not convinced. It'll need a heavy pricecut AND a huge marketing campaign for the slim, AND the WiiU to not take off and be the 'in-thing' for it to happen in Europe, and then it'll be only just.

Will it peak this year, Worldwide? No chance. It's down around 15% YoY so far, and that will only continue to slide until the Slim's release. The best the PS3 can hope for is 10% down YoY I feel at this point, and even that's a bit too hopeful. Europe has a better chance, but even then the PS3 has certainly peaked now.



 

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not a chance, there is no killer exclusive coming out. last year they had uncharted and the year before gran turismo. this year they have what? littlebigplanet karting? playstation all stars? not really the system sellers if you ask me. plus software and hardware has been down year on year. i just dont see it happening



We shall see. I believe PS3 will have its best holiday ever in Europe. The damn price hasn't even hit sub 200 while the competitors have been at that price for more than 3 4 years.



I believe that if a new slim comes along and a price cut, I think that it will just neutralize the 2010 numbers. IE same levels.



Yay!!!

kowenicki said:
I don't think some people know how numbers work. The PS3 is down more than you think in Europe about 30% on 2011 numbers recently. So how much does it need to increase to get back there?

July & August 2010 513k
July & August 2011 670k
July & August 2012 475k

So the current weekly sales level needs to increase by 41% to just match 2011.

Oh... and colours do nothing in Europe. We aren't Japanese.



The new white ps3 worked on me :)



I already got a 320GB PS3 Slim new for 149€. I don't see Sony undercutting this.



Ongoing bet with think-man: He wins if MH4 releases in any shape or form on PSV in 2013, I win if it doesn't.