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Grahamhsu on 11 March 2008

It will mean I'm buying a 360 =P




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Rath on 11 March 2008
dabaus513 said:
@ legend, last i heard sony made a profit last quarter. Theres even rumors floating around they are breaking even on the 40 gig so id imagine the 80 gig is within reach of breaking even. Unless sony does a large price drop i think the days of them losing hundreds of millions on ps3 is over.

 SCE made a profit, not the PS3. Of course we don't know how much the PS3 lost but its likely to still be fairly significant.



akuma587 on 11 March 2008

It will make some difference, but Europe, Britain excluded, seems to be pretty hostile towards MS.



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Rock_on_2008 on 11 March 2008

GT5 Prologue is an overpriced demo. Better to wait for GT5 when that is released. The price drop will increase the XBox 360 console sales, closer towards PS3 sales levels in Europe. PS3 sales levels will increase with new game releases and will increase sales even more with another price cut pre MGS 4 launch.



Mars on 11 March 2008
Rock_on_2008 said:
GT5 Prologue is an overpriced demo. Better to wait for GT5 when that is released.

 lol the ignorance.

 GT5p is more a full game then half of what is released each year, maybe that just makes all the other games look sad and pathetic but reality is no matter how much fanboys like you cry its a demo.  The damn thing packs more features and play time for $40 then 90% of games for $60 do.

 ts been 4 years since GT4, GT fans are starved for something new they will eat this up.



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MANUELF on 11 March 2008
Mars said:
Nothing.

Europa don't care for the 360 and its dumb of MS that the biggest cut is on the worst sku they sale.

They needed the cut to survive the PS3s coming flood of games, if march 28 release date for GT5p is correct any sales jump from the cut will be very short lived.  GT5p will hurt 360 sales very badly there, euros love their GT.

GT4P say hi http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=3425

GT5P is nothing important. 

 



Mars on 11 March 2008
MANUELF said:
Mars said:
Nothing.

Europa don't care for the 360 and its dumb of MS that the biggest cut is on the worst sku they sale.

They needed the cut to survive the PS3s coming flood of games, if march 28 release date for GT5p is correct any sales jump from the cut will be very short lived. GT5p will hurt 360 sales very badly there, euros love their GT.

GT4P say hi http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=3425

GT5P is nothing important.

 


 did your brain say goodbye ?

GT4p came after GT3, by then Gt fans had their fill of GT.

Right now they are STARVED for some GT glory.  You just showed how successful prologue will be, 1.3 mill and NOT even relesed in North America and after a GT game already hit the system.

GT5p did 10% of user base in Japan NOt counting PSn downlaods.
GT always had lowest attach rate per hardware in Japan.
Euro/NA GT5p is much better then jdm version.
Simple math says GT5p easily easily hits over a million world wide.

 And these are hardcore racer fans and car nuts that have not had a reason to buy a PS3 yet, just a taste of GT is plenty enough for them to jump on board.



NYANKS on 11 March 2008

Effect: negligible, but who the hell really knows, lol.



jankazimierz on 11 March 2008

Is this forum about GT5p or Sales of the 360 in europe?

 BTW, I agree with Mars, people are starving for some GT5p action!



ultraslick on 11 March 2008
Mars said:
MANUELF said:
Mars said:
Nothing.

Europa don't care for the 360 and its dumb of MS that the biggest cut is on the worst sku they sale.

They needed the cut to survive the PS3s coming flood of games, if march 28 release date for GT5p is correct any sales jump from the cut will be very short lived. GT5p will hurt 360 sales very badly there, euros love their GT.

GT4P say hi http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=3425

GT5P is nothing important.

 


did your brain say goodbye ?

GT4p came after GT3, by then Gt fans had their fill of GT.

Right now they are STARVED for some GT glory. You just showed how successful prologue will be, 1.3 mill and NOT even relesed in North America and after a GT game already hit the system.

GT5p did 10% of user base in Japan NOt counting PSn downlaods.
GT always had lowest attach rate per hardware in Japan.
Euro/NA GT5p is much better then jdm version.
Simple math says GT5p easily easily hits over a million world wide.

And these are hardcore racer fans and car nuts that have not had a reason to buy a PS3 yet, just a taste of GT is plenty enough for them to jump on board.


 i think this is absolutely true.

GT, (in any form) is a system seller.  . .. if there is such a thing

 



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