Bodhesatva said: Hi guys! Back from my shift today. I sold another Xbox360. Absolutely certain now that sales have picked up a tad over the last 2 weeks. I still haven't sold a PS3. Absolutely certain that our sales have continued to slow down. I sold one DS as well. We're sold out of Mario Party 8 and Forza 2 still. I had a guy come in today to buy Madden 07 for his PS2. He clearly a very casual player: he wasn't even sure if that was the name of the game, and also wasn't sure if Madden 08 was out yet or not. He asked me about the PS3 price, and when he heard it, clearly was not disinterested; however, when I mentioned that the 360 also has Madden 07, he was clearly even less interested in that. He didn't like Xbox he said. Never been a fan. This guy was clearly willing to keep playing his PS2 until the PS3 was cheap enough, then he'd buy that. I get the feeling that I'm getting a very, very large shipment of Wiis on Sunday. I... don't really have any substantial evidence to back this up, but I'll let you guys know if my hunch is correct.
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Awesome, thanks for the updates. I wonder how many of the PS2's owners are more casual like that. I think we can all agree the PS2 held the majority of the casual audience last generation. I wonder how many of those casual gamers are going to buy something else or just wait for the PS3 to drop within their price range.