When are sales consider holiday sales?

I hear of lot of people saying PS3 will beat the 360 or the 360 beat the PS3 in holiday sales.

I was just wonder when are sales holiday sales.

Becuase if these sales are considered for the Holiday then i see  no reason why the 360 wont kill the PS3

People mean it differently. I think there are 3 main ways of counting it.

A) Last quarter of the year.

B) Last 2 months (10 weeks)

C) December

C is the most usual way to do it.

BTW, to your 2nd line, I too believe the Ps3 will beat the Ps3 in holiday sales.

Sony may edge ahead in Others, but is going to get some pain in the US.

Xbox should take the holiday season. (wii not counted)

 oh haha sorry about that all fixxed =)

In America, it's usually considered to start the Friday after Thanksgiving. It was nicknamed "Black Friday" and was always been the biggest single day in sales for stores. Lately though, that hasn't been the case. It's still a huge day and what seems to get it started but now it's often one of the last weekend days before christmas that is the Biggest.

only think about black friday is that it only applys to 1 region. i think december should be counted as holiday sales

Over here, we could consider the week leading up to the 5th and 6th as "start", seeing how that's when "sinterklaas" (refering to some holy man from Turkey) happens, and it's aimed solely at children, so they should be getting a lot of presents (and consoles will be part of those)

Well, I agree with what you're saying about Black Friday only being relevant in America but there's no set time when people will start buying Christmas gifts. Some people start while it's still summer. And some nations don't have a holiday season like Christmas. I might very well be wrong but Christmas or any other typical late year holiday isn't common in Japan, is it? So that could be taken into consideration but it probably won't matter much anyway since console sales in Japan are fairly weak right now.

Technically the first day of holiday sales is Black Friday. However most of us here start thinking the first week of November is the start.

I think sales between Nov and Dec can be considered holiday sales. The people generally start preparing for Christmas during mid November.