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Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
Pachter usually overestimates in my experience. And I don't understand how there could be only 5 100,000 selling games, unless quite a few new releases severely underperformed, and quite a few holiday releases fell off rather quickly. I'll wait until Thursday.
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Typically, he has a bad track record of overestimating. I really question how there could be only 5 100k sellers, since GOW still sold nearly 1/4m units in January. GH2 is no suprise, but still...5 is horrid.
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Patcher said he "expects seven to do so this month {Feb}, down slightly from 10 in January". 5 sold 100,000 last month ("Though just five titles sold more than 100k units in February of 2006").
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Nice to see these numbers. PS3 stabalizing at 200,000/month. That's not that bad for a console with no games. Wii selling out at 350,000/month. That's not bad for a console with more hype than any other electronics device in all time. Numbers are looking good for me, and my expectations. And in refrence to the 360 sales never dropping below 200,000. They had their supply issues, and the 'only next gen machine out' hype. I think it was march? or april? when they fixed their supply problems, but they also dropped ALOT of great games when they did that as well. March is the critical month for PS3.
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Seems about but i guess we will see in a few days. PS3 needs to pick it up if this true, and the Wii better do something beccause it doesn't need to slow for Nintendo's sake.
Agree... March will be the foundation of a trend, Wii or PS3... If Ps3 doesn't pick up in sales we'll have to wait untill some BIG AAA Killer aps coming end 07 or 08. But with Big Wii games coming out in March/Apr like Paper mario The godfather (also on PS3) SSX blur Prince of persia and no more heroes coming in Juli, its going to be hard for PS3 to gain momentum and take no 1. Selling spot worldwide. Im guessing Wià will have advantage... Ending on top 07 unless Halo 3 makes a BIG BIG SPLASH ( Mario galaxy and metroid and SSB': Brawl will too btw...) And setting a trend for lower PS3 sales with moderate to slightly high sales when a killer app releases with a lower userbase... (i think im going to create a thread about that one...)
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I can not lend any credence to Pachter's numbers. I will not even speculate on them. He has been grossly inaccurate on several occassions. I shall wait for the real numbers to see release before I start to speculate.
200k is actually quite fine for the PS3 right now. It has pricing issues and a lack of killer aps that are hurting it. Also as Pactrer explained people are just becoming aware of the supply in PS3 stock. As long as it never dips bellow 150k or so in the first six months of the year I think Sony has to be happy. Ultimately big systems selling exclusives and awareness of Blue Ray will be needed to really get the ball rolling on the system. If it's still selling 200k a month a year from now of course that would be a huge concern, but my guess is it will be around 300k a month by then, particularly if the system gets some kind of price cut. Also there was really no mention of 360 sales. I wondar if they'll top PS2 sales. April of last year was the lone month the 360 outseld the PS2. I don't believe the 360 will outsell the PS2 consistantly until late this year, but for Feb they could due to Crackdown and really no major PS2 release. PS2 will win in March for sure due to God of War 2. I think this does matter if these PS2 buyers, and PS2 owners that keep buying PS2 software, aren't be won by Microsoft and instead will end up buying a PS3 2 or 3 years from now. One thing is for sure, the Wii is going to be the best selling console for a while. I'd put the odds strongly in favor of it being the overall best seller for 2007 for North America. I don't think it will catch up to the 360, but that's too much to ask for in one year. After we finally get a surplus of systems and the initial hype has waned a little I can see a consistant 300k+ sales monthly until the holiday season when the family friendly, and gift friendly, Wii blows all other consoles away.