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outlawauron on 24 December 2008
nojustno said:
Slimebeast said:

VGC number for end of year 2008 (including week ending 3d Jan) will have the X360 at 27.5 mill, the PS3 at 19.5 mill and Wii at 45.5 mill.

I feel though that VGC has over-tracked all 3 consoles, and that adjusted after shipment figures will be:

X360: 26.5 mill (=10.5 mill sold in 2008)
PS3: 18.5 mill (9.5 mill sold)
Wii: 44 mill (24.5 mill sold)

Therefore I perdict for 2009:

X360: 36.5 mill (+10 mill)
PS3: 30.5 mill (+12 mill)
Wii: 69 mill (+25 mill)

Note: Im assumin a big price cut $100 on the PS3 in March, followed by a small $50 on the X360. This will severly hurt X360's momentum and bring the PS3 back in the game.

$100 pricecut is VERY unlikely seeing how expensive ps3 still is to manufacture

http://kotaku.com/5117096/playstation-3-still-selling-at-a-loss-but-a-much-smaller-loss

 

And why would losing money ever cause Sony to not drop the price. They did it when they were losing MUCH  more.



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Acevil on 24 December 2008

@outlawauron

Before Sony as a whole wasn't facing challenges such as the bad economy, now they are. I'm not saying they won't have a pricecut, what I am saying is that those two situations are different.



 

outlawauron on 25 December 2008
Acevil said:

@outlawauron

Before Sony as a whole wasn't facing challenges such as the bad economy, now they are. I'm not saying they won't have a pricecut, what I am saying is that those two situations are different.

I know. I was just being sacarstic. But at the same type, they're used to losing money.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 25 December 2008

Yeah but in this economy, with tight credit, you can't just take on debt like Sony has done in the past, too much debt can sink you right now since you can't easily get more loans



 

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