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

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Darth Tigris on 17 February 2009

Slimebeast said:

darthdevidem01 said:

{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.

You are silly.

How can a 63% YoY increase with a 25% price drop be anything but extremely impressive? Going by history of console price drops the X360 should have reached the mass market price earlier. At this point in time the PS2 had dropped to $179 already and was about to be dropped to $149 (in May 2004 - it's 4th year) - while the X360 still has a very popular $300 SKU beside the Arcade $200 one.

And yet the X360 is selling close to PS2 levels now. It's a huge success.

You make too much sense. What are you doing here?