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libellule on 31 August 2009

before posting ur useless thread
next time
follow ur own word : WAIT FOR THE DATAS

(and NO, not everybody believe PS3 will crush everything this holidays !)



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lhill81 on 31 August 2009

anyone can tell your a 360 fanboy, what a suprise on the thread. your right lets wait for some figures, this gives you time to think of some excuses



heruamon on 31 August 2009
sharky974 said:

The rabid PS3 fanboys are so numerous on forums that after spending some time on them, you start to think it's already a fact slim is/will destroy 360 in sales. My advice is simple: Not so fast. We dont have a single hard sales data (Media Create, NPD, Chart Track etc) to back this up. The first inklings we have are Amazon and Vgchartz data, which I dont consider reliable.

 

My thought is 360 is going to do a LOT better than people think in the coming months, will sell toe to toe with slim at least in USA, and probably even beat the slim in USA. All we need now is to wait for the data. I suspect the first clue will be August NPD, and PS3 fans will be ready with a lot of excuses why PS3 got outsold again, mainly they will say slim came out September 1st, when it was actually mostly available on August 25th.

 

We will also get media create data early since it's weekly. I suspect PS3 will not sell as well in Japan as desired, sure it will get a nice bump, but it will not sell to fanboy expectations I predict. This will be the first clue slim will disappoint, again I predict it here.

 

The fact is everything that was "supposed" to push the PS3 to utter domination over 360 in the past failed, whether it was MGS4, prior price cuts, KIllzone 2, etc. Why will slim be any different?

 

My point is, wait for the data!

Sharky...come Jan. 2010...there is going to be some explaining to do...



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nen-suer on 31 August 2009
Blacksaber said:

Were is the PS2? Its still alive and kicking



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Brun2003 on 31 August 2009
sharky974 said:
SHMUPGurus said:
sharky974 said:

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The fact is everything that was "supposed" to push the PS3 to utter domination over 360 in the past failed, whether it was MGS4, prior price cuts, KIllzone 2, etc. Why will slim be any different?

[...]

The $$$. Simple as that!

Sure the dollars help, but if people weren't storming PS3 at 399, I dont think 299 is magically going to make it happen. You will see incremental increase at best.


Thats like saying people aren't buying cars so why would the cash for clunkers make any difference.



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HideoK on 31 August 2009

LIke you said the US started selling the PS3 slim August 24th or 25th so we should see a nice boost over here this week.
I believe Japan doesn't start selling the slim until September 1st though so we'll have to wait until next week to see the impact over there.



Wii_Master on 31 August 2009
RolStoppable said:
nen-suer said:
Blacksaber said:

Were is the PS2? Its still alive and kicking

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Euphoria14 on 31 August 2009

PS3 is DOOMED!!



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Pristine20 on 31 August 2009

depends on what "destroy" means. If you mean Japanese 360vPS3 sales, I'll agree but if you mean NA ps3V360 sales, I'll have to disagree. WW, ps3 won't be that far ahead of 360this holiday season. At least not as far as the term "destroy" would suggest



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wholikeswood on 31 August 2009
sharky974 said:

I suspect the first clue will be August NPD, and PS3 fans will be ready with a lot of excuses why PS3 got outsold again, mainly they will say slim came out September 1st, when it was actually mostly available on August 25th.

The fact is everything that was "supposed" to push the PS3 to utter domination over 360 in the past failed, whether it was MGS4, prior price cuts, KIllzone 2, etc. Why will slim be any different?

Whilst I agree that "PS3 slim will destroy all!!11111111" is stupid, your OP is flawed.

Firstly, Slim launching in America with a week of August sales is not going to massively spin August NPD in the PS3's favour, so don't pitch it like everyone is expecting it to, so that you can then be smug when it doesn't.

Secondly, the PS3 pricecut in Autumn 2007 certainly did not fail; it helped the PS3 keep toe-to-toe with 360 in the holiday 2007 season despite the launch of Halo 3, and then helped the PS3 to dominate the 360 from Jan 08 until the 360's pricecuts in Sep 08.

Thirdly, comparing the effects of software releases versus pricecuts is embarrassing. As we've seen in 2007 and 2008, pricecuts swing momentum substantially. In contrast, software is, with only a few exceptions, capable of nothing more than a spike.