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Bboid on 15 December 2008
Grampy said:

This string in the sheer illogic of its argument reminds me of the Presidential Election of 1964 (Please note, this is not a discussion of politics but simply human nature).

In the most one sided election in the entire history of American Politics Lyndon Johnson totally crushed Republican candidate Barry Goldwater. Johnson carried 44 states with 486 electoral votes to Goldwater’s six states with 52. The popular vote was 43,127,041 to 27,175,754.

After the election the stunned and disappointed Goldwater supporters put up a very defensive and bizarre billboard and bumper sticker campaign that said “27 million American’s Can’t Be Wrong.” Failing to account for how then the other 43 million could be.

So if I understand the OP, the argument is that 1,000,000 game console purchasers that chose the PS3 can’t be wrong.  But that the 1, 800,000 who chose the Xbox360 and the 3,600,000 who chose the Wii are.

Well, why not “de Nile” river runs deep.

 

I like to think that the 1,000,000 that chose a PS3, the 1, 800,000 who chose the Xbox360 and the 3,600,000 who chose the Wii are all correct for buying the console they want rather than the console everyone else wants them to buy or a console that is a "right" choice on the "winning" side.

 

 



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Grampy on 15 December 2008
Bboid said:
Grampy said:

This string in the sheer illogic of its argument reminds me of the Presidential Election of 1964 (Please note, this is not a discussion of politics but simply human nature).

In the most one sided election in the entire history of American Politics Lyndon Johnson totally crushed Republican candidate Barry Goldwater. Johnson carried 44 states with 486 electoral votes to Goldwater’s six states with 52. The popular vote was 43,127,041 to 27,175,754.

After the election the stunned and disappointed Goldwater supporters put up a very defensive and bizarre billboard and bumper sticker campaign that said “27 million American’s Can’t Be Wrong.” Failing to account for how then the other 43 million could be.

So if I understand the OP, the argument is that 1,000,000 game console purchasers that chose the PS3 can’t be wrong.  But that the 1, 800,000 who chose the Xbox360 and the 3,600,000 who chose the Wii are.

Well, why not “de Nile” river runs deep.

 

I like to think that the 1,000,000 that chose a PS3, the 1, 800,000 who chose the Xbox360 and the 3,600,000 who chose the Wii are all correct for buying the console they want rather than the console everyone else wants them to buy or a console that is a "right" choice on the "winning" side.

 

 

I would agree with you 100% .... I doubt that the OP would however which is what inspired my somewhat tongue-in-cheek response
 



griffinA on 15 December 2008

What scares me more than crazzyman's ability to twist information to make his opinion look like the correct one is that people will actually go along with it. Anything to make them feel good about their purchase i guess.

On that note:

"The wii's selling great for a white console!!!"

"The 360 is selling great for a plastic product!!!"



"Pier was a chef, a gifted and respected chef who made millions selling his dishes to the residents of New York City and Boston, he even had a famous jingle playing in those cities that everyone knew by heart. He also had a restaurant in Los Angeles, but not expecting LA to have such a massive population he only used his name on that restaurant and left it to his least capable and cheapest chefs. While his New York restaurant sold kobe beef for $100 and his Boston restaurant sold lobster for $50, his LA restaurant sold cheap hotdogs for $30. Initially these hot dogs sold fairly well because residents of los angeles were starving for good food and hoped that the famous name would denote a high quality, but most were disappointed with what they ate. Seeing the success of his cheap hot dogs in LA, Pier thought "why bother giving Los Angeles quality meats when I can oversell them on cheap hotdogs forever, and since I don't care about the product anyways, why bother advertising them? So Pier continued to only sell cheap hotdogs in LA and was surprised to see that they no longer sold. Pier's conclusion? Residents of Los Angeles don't like food."

"The so-called "hardcore" gamer is a marketing brainwashed, innovation shunting, self-righteous idiot who pays videogame makers far too much money than what is delivered."

Batman...WTF? on 15 December 2008
mike_intellivision said:
Sony is selling a million PS3s a month this time of year.
Nintendo is selling a million Wiis a week.

Hmmmm.

Mike from Morgantown

Half a million.



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Maynard_Tool on 15 December 2008

So, the DS almost sold a million in just ONE week in just ONE region. Dig that my friend



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atma998 on 16 December 2008
Maynard_Tool said:
So, the DS almost sold a million in just ONE week in just ONE region. Dig that my friend

 

 This!



Batman...WTF? on 18 December 2008
atma998 said:
Maynard_Tool said:
So, the DS almost sold a million in just ONE week in just ONE region. Dig that my friend

 

 This!

Holy crap...



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PalmiNio on 18 December 2008

Well sure there is allways a way to spin everything

1 million at high price in crisis may sound good.

- But they still make least money on each console (or loses most).
- Everyone else is selling better
- They had the highest cost of development

Yes it will get a pricecut next year but:
- Both Microsoft and Nintendo has better cost-to-price ratio so nothing stops them from from lowering price to

- The economic problems of the western world won't stop next year, higher risk that they will become worse for end consumers due to the fact that the lay-offs around the world just started. Nearly every western country alerts for higher unemployment rate next year.
- And the problems won't be over after 2009 either

So yes it is a good spin but Epic failure. PS3 is not dying but Sony is bleeding like hell. A console that cost too much develop that they have trouble selling at a profit and sales that demands pricecuts, that is the reality.

PS3 is the worst console looking finascialy. 360 is not much better but better. The only true winner is Wii.

And the megawinner is Nintendo, rich as fuck.



Predictions for 2009:

360: 39-42 PS3: 31-34 Wii: 67-70

Future projection

Wii will hit 100 million before christmas 2010 (made december 2008)

NDS Family will have sold and shipped more then PS2 at the end of 2009 (made january 2009)

TheBigFatJ on 18 December 2008
CrazzyMan said:
You know what? That's too bad for Sony but they choose the wrong strategy in the beggining. They underestimated the intelligence of customers when they launched PS3 at a outrageous price. Like they said : you reap what you sow!
They STILL sold 1 MILLION PS3 in November.
At 400$/€. How bad for Sony... =)
it probably will sell 2 MILLIONS or even more in December, again at 400$/€.
Selling 3 mln. consoles in 2 months probably is very BAD. PS3 is dying. =)))

 

And they lost 1.66 billion for the year, didn't they?

How bad for Sony =)

The holidays will pass soon and Sony will have 3 million sales to account for it.  And their opponents will have sold 7-11 million each.

You are happy with a very poor seasonal bump where Sony needs to have a good year.  That's like saying, "Hey, these scraps from the table are actually decent, for scraps."