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Why was the PS3 up YOY in USA during BF week?

Great bundle deals and discounts 198 45.41%
 
New exclusive games (All ... 21 4.82%
 
More PS3 advertising 15 3.44%
 
A combination of multiple factors 136 31.19%
 
Other 16 3.67%
 
See results 48 11.01%
 
Total:434
Aura7541 on 30 November 2012
babuks said:
So, does this mean exclusives don't matter, specially later in the generation?


They still do. Had the PS3 have some big exclusives this year, I think it would've gotten even more sales.



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thismeintiel on 30 November 2012
Aura7541 said:
babuks said:
So, does this mean exclusives don't matter, specially later in the generation?


They still do. Had the PS3 have some big exclusives this year, I think it would've gotten even more sales

Next year should be a very good year.  Lots of exclusives and a $50 price cut.



 

ninetailschris on 30 November 2012
Euphoria14 said:
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But cross game chat.



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Euphoria14 on 01 December 2012
ninetailschris said:
Euphoria14 said:
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But cross game chat.

 


Big whoop.



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Carl on 02 December 2012
kowenicki said:


Why? It was way behind its competitor last year and its way behind its competitor this year.  Yes it's up, which is good, but it's relatively still pretty bad? Isn't it? 

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4926838

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michael_stutzer on 02 December 2012

Do we have any source other than Sony? I fully believe that Xbox 360 will be the best seller of 2012 worldwide with ease.

I don't see how anything has much of a chance against a 360 plus halo and COD in the states this holiday.



Carl on 02 December 2012
kowenicki said:


Well in that particular race you mentioned the 360 finished 2% behind.

on Black Friday the 360 sold 50% more. 

Now shhhh, I'm watching the 3rd round draw. 

Yet it was still outsold by the main competitor, despite selling what... 100%(?) more on BF and being up YoY

Terrible, boring draw.



                            

slowmo on 02 December 2012

So ultimately despite all the talk in here it still has been massively outsold by the 360 and will not sell more than it for the entire holiday season despite having a new model available and loads of Bundles?

We could do the favourite thing of Sony fans and do launch alignment sales in the US but that makes it look even worse as it means the 360 sold 100% more then, strange how that's not brought up in these threads.

I would say the reason it is up is due to the new model and aggressive bundling and pricing by Sony for BF. I expect sales to be back down yoy as the deals expire imo



VGKing on 02 December 2012
slowmo said:
So ultimately despite all the talk in here it still has been massively outsold by the 360 and will not sell more than it for the entire holiday season despite having a new model available and loads of Bundles?

We could do the favourite thing of Sony fans and do launch alignment sales in the US but that makes it look even worse as it means the 360 sold 100% more then, strange how that's not brought up in these threads.

I would say the reason it is up is due to the new model and aggressive bundling and pricing by Sony for BF. I expect sales to be back down yoy as the deals expire imo

don't be a hypocrite. MS had a $50 price cut on bundles for weeks now yet it was still massively down YoY. 



slowmo on 02 December 2012
pezus said:
slowmo said:
So ultimately despite all the talk in here it still has been massively outsold by the 360 and will not sell more than it for the entire holiday season despite having a new model available and loads of Bundles?

We could do the favourite thing of Sony fans and do launch alignment sales in the US but that makes it look even worse as it means the 360 sold 100% more then, strange how that's not brought up in these threads.

I would say the reason it is up is due to the new model and aggressive bundling and pricing by Sony for BF. I expect sales to be back down yoy as the deals expire imo

Well these are the only weeks of the year where 360 even has a chance. Can't win them all. PS3 will win the last two weeks of the year though.

Is the new model going to expire? The bundles are not going to expire as far as I know (at least not all of them). 

Refresh my memory here, didn't MS temporarily cut the price of their console for the holidays at Gamestop


The thread is about US figures if you want to bring WW  into it I'll report you for trolling off topic.  How many weeks has the PS3 outsold 360 in the last 2 years in the US?    The topic is US numbers, it will not outsell the 360 in the US this year...