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Forums - Sales - Xbox 360 is at a Mass Market Price -- But Are YOY Sales INCREASES enough?

darthdevidem01 on 17 February 2009

{credit to kowenicki for the data}

Compared to last year...

2008 week ending 5th Jan to week ending 9th Feb

Wii  1,909,368          47.4%

PS3  1,256,497         31.3%

360   854,869           21.3%

Total  4,020,734

 

2009 week ending 3rd Jan to week ending 7th Feb

Wii  2,733,445          52.8%    (up 824,077 or 43.2% on 2008)

PS3  1,051,797          20.3%    (down 204,700 or 16.3% on 2008)

360  1,395,980          26.9%    (up 541,111 or 63.3% on 2008)

Total  5,181,222        up 28.9%

 

So in a rising market the Wii is taking off, the 360 is follwing that market.

BUT what I am asking is 360 is up 500K in January.....however wii was up by more.

I am wondering whether this increase in sales i actually worth of taking note considering the xbox 360 is at a mass market price point but the wii increase still proves to be greater.

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{further credit to kowenicki for following lines}

The market is up 29%... but the 360 isnt following the market at all... its actually up 63% - more than twice the market.

UP 63% YOY - very impressive.

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Also the NP showed xbox 360 was roughly up 25% YOY....so is a 25% increase really good for a console coming of a holiday season where its price was cut to a mass market price point??

just a thought....want to know your opinion

We may have an answer......check first part of this post again

 



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Serious_frusting on 17 February 2009

i think the sales rise is good but the sales for how cheap the console is, is disapointing



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Squilliam on 17 February 2009

Darth:

Microsofts real problem is not their performance relative to the PS3/Wii, their problems stem from the relative performance of the SKUs.

The Arcade is just too good, and the upgrade kit is too enticing. The Arcade is stealing sales of the Xbox 360 Premium and thats lowering total revenue/profitability. Their issue is making the Premium/Elite SKUs more relevant and therefore increase their revenue from hardware and ensure a greater adoption of SKUs with HDDs as their online revenue is a substantial part of their business.



Tease.

kirby007 on 17 February 2009

you cant compare it to the wii



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johnsobas on 17 February 2009

sales are only up 63%??? pfffft, that's crap.



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kutasek on 17 February 2009

It's great, it went above my expectation, i would never guessed that xbox 360 would sell that well, especially in others.



Squilliam on 17 February 2009

Remember people! The Xbox 360 was suffering from shortages this time last year... It would pay to compare current sales to a more normalised month like March.



Tease.

kutasek on 17 February 2009
Squilliam said:
Darth:

Microsofts real problem is not their performance relative to the PS3/Wii, their problems stem from the relative performance of the SKUs.

The Arcade is just too good, and the upgrade kit is too enticing. The Arcade is stealing sales of the Xbox 360 Premium and thats lowering total revenue/profitability. Their issue is making the Premium/Elite SKUs more relevant and therefore increase their revenue from hardware and ensure a greater adoption of SKUs with HDDs as their online revenue is a substantial part of their business.

 

Yes, especially when i can buy an arcade, and than 120gig hd, for 80 bucks, so that would bring my total less than 300$, with twice the space.



Squilliam on 17 February 2009
kutasek said:
Squilliam said:
Darth:

Microsofts real problem is not their performance relative to the PS3/Wii, their problems stem from the relative performance of the SKUs.

The Arcade is just too good, and the upgrade kit is too enticing. The Arcade is stealing sales of the Xbox 360 Premium and thats lowering total revenue/profitability. Their issue is making the Premium/Elite SKUs more relevant and therefore increase their revenue from hardware and ensure a greater adoption of SKUs with HDDs as their online revenue is a substantial part of their business.

 

Yes, especially when i can buy an arcade, and than 120gig hd, for 80 bucks, so that would bring my total less than 300$, with twice the space.

Err err err err I thought I was talking about a general population that cannot tie its shoelaces properly, let-alone change an HDD on an Xbox 360.

 



Tease.

kutasek on 17 February 2009
Squilliam said:
kutasek said:
Squilliam said:
Darth:

Microsofts real problem is not their performance relative to the PS3/Wii, their problems stem from the relative performance of the SKUs.

The Arcade is just too good, and the upgrade kit is too enticing. The Arcade is stealing sales of the Xbox 360 Premium and thats lowering total revenue/profitability. Their issue is making the Premium/Elite SKUs more relevant and therefore increase their revenue from hardware and ensure a greater adoption of SKUs with HDDs as their online revenue is a substantial part of their business.

 

Yes, especially when i can buy an arcade, and than 120gig hd, for 80 bucks, so that would bring my total less than 300$, with twice the space.

Err err err err I thought I was talking about a general population that cannot tie its shoelaces properly, let-alone change an HDD on an Xbox 360.

 

Stop making fun of general population.