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S-L-I-P said:
Lost tears of Kain said:
S-L-I-P said:
There was a 21% sales increase when the price went from 600-500 USD on the 60 Gigabyte model... with the upcoming 400 USD bundle with SpiderMan3 Blu-Ray.. DURING the holiday seasons and after, with the flow of games hitting hard after the end of 07'... I don't see why its not hard for the PS3 to pass the 360? Opinions are opinions but honestly, Halo 3 will hit hard but pretty much everyone who wanted Halo3 already has a 360...( Besides me, I'm planning on buying a 360 when theres a deal for it ).. I'm surprised the PS3 is selling as decent as it is with the high price.. and with the way prices are being cut I'm expecting a 200%-220% increase in sales ( This is very possible seeing as sales aren't that high to begin with ) monthly. In the end though, its the games that decides the winner..

1. PS3
2. Wii
3. 360

Fanboyism? Hardly... the Wii is branching out in to a new market, bringing in new customers.. but what happens once that new market begins to lose is value? Not 100 percent sure about this statement but someone with more knowledge of the market and business could help me out here... The PS3 is staying in the same market, with a potential of 100 Million userbase once the price drops.. ( PS2 to PS3 gamers )...

Not sure if everyone can agree with this statement but didn't the Xbox flop? Is it possible the only reason why Microsoft has such a larger install base is because of the one-year advantage? Anyways I'll wait for someone to reply to go on...

If ps3 were to do that you could expect to have xbox drop its price and bundle something as well

In terms of games, you can count wii winner, if its quanity over quality ( n64 and ps one anyone?)

You cannot say sony will take top because most of the ps2 owners will want a ps 3, its what happened with nintendo, they lost more and more each year of fans, till now nintendo is back on top.

No they do not have such a huge advantage because of 1 year, ps3 is selling at the same rate as 360, if not slower, so you cannot say that year gave them that lead, because its not the only thing that is allowing them to win


 

It's selling at the same rate as the 360 +/- every few months. As you said it yourself, the Wii has a large number of games but currently few quality games. In terms of games selling systems, its quality games that do that job. If those million seller games were mediocre they wouldn't be million sellers in the first place, correct? And no I do not expect Microsoft to drop price because of Sony's rumored price drop this holiday season due to the fact that Microsoft has already bled a lot of money already and they need to find a way to make up for that. That 1 year head-start 360 had it was selling tons more than it is now, that is why the lead is so tremendous. Otherwise it would probably be around 8mil or lower ( They count refurbished units as sold ) if it sold at the rate of the PS3.

They don't count refurbished units as sold.  NPD and the other tracking companies (and this website) base their numbers on sales at retail which don't include refurbished units.



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Lost tears of Kain said:
Microsoft will bleed more, if sony drops price so will MS

 And of course, Microsoft has more blood, so a price drop battle is one Sony will never win.