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fulcizombie on 14 January 2009

well it does seem that the difference between the 2 is stuck below 8 million despite the fact that the 360 is outselling the ps3 WW on a weekly basis so anything can happen .



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NJ5 on 14 January 2009
MikeB said:
NJ5 said:

So the PS3 doubling its userbase (built in 2+ years) during a recession year is a balanced perspective?

By the way, your "Sony couldn't have afforded" argument doesn't work. They could have afforded it if the PS3 sold OK at 500-600 € as Sony was expecting.

What do you mean? The console sold OK, it outsold the much overhyped 360 sales taking equal time frames.

And no, Sony couldn't have afforded selling at Wii like levels early on (at least not at 500 or 600 dollars, maybe at 800 to 900 dollars they could have). That would have costed billions extra without enough software sales revenue to balance the hardware investment costs.

 

If the console sold according to expectations, why did Sony lower the price from 600 € to 400 € before the PS3 even saw its first holiday in Europe?

 



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tuoyo on 14 January 2009
MikeB said:

@ Jereel Hunter

What? outperform DVD? Based on what definition of outperform?


Continues to outperform DVD taking equal time frames. Blu-Ray in 2008 outperformed DVD compared to 1999 sales (both software and hardware), so I mean Blu-Ray to continue to outperform DVD in 2009 compared to how well DVD performed in 2000. Rome wasn't built in a day.

Of course it did.  Most of those sales are due to PS3.  It isn't a sensible comparison given that PS2 (which would count towards DVD sales) did not come out within 3 years of DVD players coming to the market.  If you can say Blu Ray hardware sales without PS3 being included are outperforming DVD in its first 3 years then that would be something. 

 



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mrstickball on 14 January 2009

I think MikeB is an alternate account for Crazzyman.



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colonelstubbs on 14 January 2009

I got this crazy rant on my wall this morning...having read through it twice i have to say, the reasoning is sound.

384,000 consoles a week? Piece of cake



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NNN2004 on 14 January 2009

lol what a guy



NJ5 on 14 January 2009
mrstickball said:
I think MikeB is an alternate account for Crazzyman.

He didn't use to be this  way... He has always been too much in love with the Cell to the point of making some ridiculous technical claims (as well as some valid ones), but never until a few weeks ago had I seen him making insane sales predictions.

 



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MikeB on 14 January 2009

@ NJ5

If the console sold according to expectations, why did Sony lower the price from 600 € to 400 € before the PS3 even saw its first holiday in Europe?


The 40 GB PS3 provided fewer features than the original model. It does not make much sense to charge the same amount of money. (no card readers, smaller harddrive, no PS2 compatibility [no PS2 GPU included], etc).

And the PS3 sold slower than anticipated for Japan and North America, which also got these new models. The PS3 performed well in Europe already.



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NJ5 on 14 January 2009
MikeB said:
@ NJ5

If the console sold according to expectations, why did Sony lower the price from 600 € to 400 € before the PS3 even saw its first holiday in Europe?


The 40 GB PS3 provided fewer features than the original model. It does not make much sense to charge the same amount of money. (no card readers, smaller harddrive, no PS2 compatibility [no PS2 GPU included], etc).

And the PS3 sold slower than anticipated for Japan and North America, which also got these new models. The PS3 performed well in Europe already.

But certainly you don't think that Sony was planning that all along (along with the huge price cut 6 months after launch)?

 



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MikeB on 14 January 2009
NJ5 said:
mrstickball said:
I think MikeB is an alternate account for Crazzyman.

He didn't use to be this  way... He has always been too much in love with the Cell to the point of making some ridiculous technical claims (as well as some valid ones), but never until a few weeks ago had I seen him making insane sales predictions.

You are wrong, I have. Just before the Halo 3 release I stated the PS3 would soon regain ground after that title was launched. Some staff members made fun of me and I have seen my share of ridiculing from 360 fans back then as well.

In the end I was right about this though.

 



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