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KBG29 on 14 April 2008

PS3>Wii



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BKK2 on 14 April 2008

The president of Enterbrain (Famitsu publisher, sales tracker) Hirokazu Hamamura believes a Y10,000 ($100) is needed for the PS3 in Japan this year.

Google Translation:

April 12 news, games magazine publisher Enterbrain Friday (April 11), Sony PS3 is the need to cut prices 25 percent this year to the Japanese market momentum of growth.

Enterbrain president Hirokazu Hamamura said, the entry-level Sony PS3 console prices from the current 39,980 yen to 30,000 yen reduction (294 dollars) could be a smart move. He said that 30,000 yen of the PS2 is a tipping point. Powerful game would appear. The PS3 price will be decided whether to leave the trough.

Although the PS3 is booming European market for some followers, but the PS3 in Japan, sales are still lagging behind Nintendo's Wii console. Nintendo Wii March of this year and Sony PS3 console in the Japanese market sales ratio is 3 to 1.

Enterbrain said, Sony PS3 console in 2007 Japan accounted for 30% of market share, Nintendo's Wii accounted for 62%. PS3 in the Japanese market have room to grow. Konami has introduced the new game "Metal Gear 4" and access to the next generation Blu-ray DVD players that the victory of World War II in 2008 on the PS3 a favorable year.


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Yojimbo on 14 April 2008

PS3 does not need price drop in Japan it needs much more japanese games. Even 360 is spanking it in the RPG departement.



 
Frost on 21 April 2008
Sqrl said:
Frost said:
I'm not going to go scour the web and collate data for you to prove the obvious, I have better things to do with my time; unless you would like to pay me first. Look around and read up on it yourself; I'm sure you can use Google as well as anybody else.

Ok, based on your own words you're either completely inept when it comes to "Google-fu" or you've just contradicted yourself. 

 I'm inept or contradictory by not blowing time collecting and posting links that someone else can easily find themselves? Your assertion is illogical.

Rock_on_2008 on 21 April 2008

400k-500k for the first week and average out around 300k for the week.



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BengaBenga on 21 April 2008
KBG29 said:
PS3>Wii

I see a major dissapointment coming.



Frost on 26 April 2008
starcraft said:

Very well.  Provide your links...........

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/837/837533p1.html

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/852942/

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080207-ibm-shrinks-cell-to-45nm-cheaper-ps3s-will-follow.html

There, that's just a quick starter found in a couple of minutes. If you want to research it further, as I said before, you can find plenty more if you're interested.  And before you start going "blah blah, it said mid-2009" Sony's fiscal year runs from March to March. FY2009 is March 2008 to March 2009.

 Now quit being a pain in the ass in other threads because I refused to prove to you something that's been yesterday's news in the chip industry for over a year now. The Cell and RSX going 45nm mid-FY09/late Calendar Year 2008 has been on the development roadmap since early 2007.



TheRealMafoo on 26 April 2008
madskillz said:
Even with the RROD, the 360 has been profitable for a while now....

 I think that's just MS playing with numbers. They paid a billion or so for the RRoD's last year (or was it 2006?), so they could show a profit later down the road.

I haven't been keeping up with the numbers though, so they might have made that amount back.



*bleu-ocelot* on 26 April 2008
BengaBenga said:
KBG29 said:
PS3>Wii

I see a major dissapointment coming.


Yeah i know what you mean,R.I.P Nintendo Wii

ckmlb on 26 April 2008
starcraft said:
Why do people think the PS3 will get a second (third if you include the gap between 20GB cancellation and 40GB introduction) $100 price drop.

What do you think? That Sony hates money?

Because Sony are really good at reducing manufacturing costs. According to reports, PS3 will be profitable out of the box this summer, even though there's been 2 price cuts and it wasn't profitable at launch.

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