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psrock on 08 September 2009
Bitmap Frogs said:
psrock said:
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what were your predictions again? I can safely say no one expected such big numbers, nobody. Now, you somehow know just 600k people waited two years to get the ps3 at $299. Just amzing how much people know after the fact .

 

I never predict sales. 

Anyways, are you gonna pretend it's gonna sell 500k per week from now on?

Because every pricecut on any console has caused a sales spike followed by slowdown up to a new sales plateau. If you are gonna try to defend that somehow the ps3 is gonna behave in a different manner than every single console including the ps3 (as far as the 2007 pricecut is concerned) I'd like to hear you why is it gonna happen.

Duh!

Dude, the Wii doesnt sell 500k a week, what the hell areyou talking about? Yes, I am sure many peoplecan't wait for the next couple weeks to claim it was just a spike because so many people were waiting for it, but I don't care. I just want good sales, good games.

I have been here when threads were being created asking for Sony to just kill off the console, please move aside and let me enjoy MY BIG WEEK.

 



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Cueil on 08 September 2009
psrock said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
psrock said:
 

what were your predictions again? I can safely say no one expected such big numbers, nobody. Now, you somehow know just 600k people waited two years to get the ps3 at $299. Just amzing how much people know after the fact .

 

I never predict sales. 

Anyways, are you gonna pretend it's gonna sell 500k per week from now on?

Because every pricecut on any console has caused a sales spike followed by slowdown up to a new sales plateau. If you are gonna try to defend that somehow the ps3 is gonna behave in a different manner than every single console including the ps3 (as far as the 2007 pricecut is concerned) I'd like to hear you why is it gonna happen.

Duh!

Dude, the Wii doesnt sell 500k a week, what the hell areyou talking about? Yes, I am sure many peoplecan't wait for the next couple weeks to claim it was just a spike because so many people were waiting for it, but I don't care. I just want good sales, good games.

I have been here when threads were being created asking for Sony to just kill off the console, please move aside and let me enjoy MY BIG WEEK.

 

That's a lot of pent up demand... Sony took their time getting the price down though I still feel the hundred dollar cut was to much... two 50 dollar cuts could have had a more substantial and sustained effect.



 
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Bitmap Frogs on 08 September 2009
psrock said:

Duh!

Dude, the Wii doesnt sell 500k a week, what the hell areyou talking about? Yes, I am sure many peoplecan't wait for the next couple weeks to claim it was just a spike because so many people were waiting for it, but I don't care. I just want good sales, good games.

I have been here when threads were being created asking for Sony to just kill off the console, please move aside and let me enjoy MY BIG WEEK.

 

 

So, again do you firmly believe it's gonna sell like that from now on or rather this is just a spike that's inevitably gonna be followed by a further tapering down until it reaches a new plateau?





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psrock on 08 September 2009
Cueil said:
psrock said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
psrock said:
 

what were your predictions again? I can safely say no one expected such big numbers, nobody. Now, you somehow know just 600k people waited two years to get the ps3 at $299. Just amzing how much people know after the fact .

 

I never predict sales. 

Anyways, are you gonna pretend it's gonna sell 500k per week from now on?

Because every pricecut on any console has caused a sales spike followed by slowdown up to a new sales plateau. If you are gonna try to defend that somehow the ps3 is gonna behave in a different manner than every single console including the ps3 (as far as the 2007 pricecut is concerned) I'd like to hear you why is it gonna happen.

Duh!

Dude, the Wii doesnt sell 500k a week, what the hell areyou talking about? Yes, I am sure many peoplecan't wait for the next couple weeks to claim it was just a spike because so many people were waiting for it, but I don't care. I just want good sales, good games.

I have been here when threads were being created asking for Sony to just kill off the console, please move aside and let me enjoy MY BIG WEEK.

 

That's a lot of pent up demand... Sony took their time getting the price down though I still feel the hundred dollar cut was to much... two 50 dollar cuts could have had a more substantial and sustained effect.

Thank you man from the future.



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Cueil on 08 September 2009
psrock said:
Cueil said:
psrock said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
psrock said:
 

what were your predictions again? I can safely say no one expected such big numbers, nobody. Now, you somehow know just 600k people waited two years to get the ps3 at $299. Just amzing how much people know after the fact .

 

I never predict sales. 

Anyways, are you gonna pretend it's gonna sell 500k per week from now on?

Because every pricecut on any console has caused a sales spike followed by slowdown up to a new sales plateau. If you are gonna try to defend that somehow the ps3 is gonna behave in a different manner than every single console including the ps3 (as far as the 2007 pricecut is concerned) I'd like to hear you why is it gonna happen.

Duh!

Dude, the Wii doesnt sell 500k a week, what the hell areyou talking about? Yes, I am sure many peoplecan't wait for the next couple weeks to claim it was just a spike because so many people were waiting for it, but I don't care. I just want good sales, good games.

I have been here when threads were being created asking for Sony to just kill off the console, please move aside and let me enjoy MY BIG WEEK.

 

That's a lot of pent up demand... Sony took their time getting the price down though I still feel the hundred dollar cut was to much... two 50 dollar cuts could have had a more substantial and sustained effect.

Thank you man from the future.

So would you like to tell me about why you're so angry *sips on some joe*  It often helps to just let it out sometimes... I'd like for you to look at two number... one of them is smaller than the other... try and figure it out  200.... 300



 
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Alby_da_Wolf on 08 September 2009
kowenicki said:
@nick & godbless

Exactly...the increase for the PS3 in the UK is actualy around 100 - 150% on an average week (the 1000% is ludicrous)... this is still a very reasonable spike, but far from earth shattering.

Fine, but in this case let's apply this rule to every console, not just PS3.  Average week for Wii, for example, is over 360k WW since launch.

 



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psrock on 08 September 2009
Cueil said:
psrock said:
Cueil said:
psrock said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
psrock said:
 

what were your predictions again? I can safely say no one expected such big numbers, nobody. Now, you somehow know just 600k people waited two years to get the ps3 at $299. Just amzing how much people know after the fact .

 

I never predict sales. 

Anyways, are you gonna pretend it's gonna sell 500k per week from now on?

Because every pricecut on any console has caused a sales spike followed by slowdown up to a new sales plateau. If you are gonna try to defend that somehow the ps3 is gonna behave in a different manner than every single console including the ps3 (as far as the 2007 pricecut is concerned) I'd like to hear you why is it gonna happen.

Duh!

Dude, the Wii doesnt sell 500k a week, what the hell areyou talking about? Yes, I am sure many peoplecan't wait for the next couple weeks to claim it was just a spike because so many people were waiting for it, but I don't care. I just want good sales, good games.

I have been here when threads were being created asking for Sony to just kill off the console, please move aside and let me enjoy MY BIG WEEK.

 

That's a lot of pent up demand... Sony took their time getting the price down though I still feel the hundred dollar cut was to much... two 50 dollar cuts could have had a more substantial and sustained effect.

Thank you man from the future.

So would you like to tell me about why you're so angry *sips on some joe*  It often helps to just let it out sometimes... I'd like for you to look at two number... one of them is smaller than the other... try and figure it out  200.... 300

Do you still have that one slim sitting and unsold at  your store while 360  flew by each hour?



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Cueil on 08 September 2009
psrock said:
Cueil said:
psrock said:
Cueil said:
psrock said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
psrock said:
 

what were your predictions again? I can safely say no one expected such big numbers, nobody. Now, you somehow know just 600k people waited two years to get the ps3 at $299. Just amzing how much people know after the fact .

 

I never predict sales. 

Anyways, are you gonna pretend it's gonna sell 500k per week from now on?

Because every pricecut on any console has caused a sales spike followed by slowdown up to a new sales plateau. If you are gonna try to defend that somehow the ps3 is gonna behave in a different manner than every single console including the ps3 (as far as the 2007 pricecut is concerned) I'd like to hear you why is it gonna happen.

Duh!

Dude, the Wii doesnt sell 500k a week, what the hell areyou talking about? Yes, I am sure many peoplecan't wait for the next couple weeks to claim it was just a spike because so many people were waiting for it, but I don't care. I just want good sales, good games.

I have been here when threads were being created asking for Sony to just kill off the console, please move aside and let me enjoy MY BIG WEEK.

 

That's a lot of pent up demand... Sony took their time getting the price down though I still feel the hundred dollar cut was to much... two 50 dollar cuts could have had a more substantial and sustained effect.

Thank you man from the future.

So would you like to tell me about why you're so angry *sips on some joe*  It often helps to just let it out sometimes... I'd like for you to look at two number... one of them is smaller than the other... try and figure it out  200.... 300

Do you still have that one slim sitting and unsold at  your store while 360  flew by each hour?

The truth is that is about right... we've sold 3 slims an 5 360s... I work at Walmart and our area is pretty pro-360, but the point is still that over the holiday season you'll see a shift in console sold from the 300 dollar system to the 200 dollar system... If MS can match what they did last year it'll be a great holiday season for both console manufacturers, but Sony has opened the gates to the 30-32 million mark at best before significant slow down on the levels we saw this year occur again.  Those extra numbers that MS has been leading the PS3 with are almost all Arcade.  Valhalla hasn't been released (GPU on CPU) and Microsoft still has room to drop the Arcade significantly lower... though they'll probably keep the price and throw in Natal for the casual consumers.



 
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psrock on 08 September 2009
Cueil said:
psrock said:
Cueil said:
psrock said:
Cueil said:
psrock said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
psrock said:
 

what were your predictions again? I can safely say no one expected such big numbers, nobody. Now, you somehow know just 600k people waited two years to get the ps3 at $299. Just amzing how much people know after the fact .

 

I never predict sales. 

Anyways, are you gonna pretend it's gonna sell 500k per week from now on?

Because every pricecut on any console has caused a sales spike followed by slowdown up to a new sales plateau. If you are gonna try to defend that somehow the ps3 is gonna behave in a different manner than every single console including the ps3 (as far as the 2007 pricecut is concerned) I'd like to hear you why is it gonna happen.

Duh!

Dude, the Wii doesnt sell 500k a week, what the hell areyou talking about? Yes, I am sure many peoplecan't wait for the next couple weeks to claim it was just a spike because so many people were waiting for it, but I don't care. I just want good sales, good games.

I have been here when threads were being created asking for Sony to just kill off the console, please move aside and let me enjoy MY BIG WEEK.

 

That's a lot of pent up demand... Sony took their time getting the price down though I still feel the hundred dollar cut was to much... two 50 dollar cuts could have had a more substantial and sustained effect.

Thank you man from the future.

So would you like to tell me about why you're so angry *sips on some joe*  It often helps to just let it out sometimes... I'd like for you to look at two number... one of them is smaller than the other... try and figure it out  200.... 300

Do you still have that one slim sitting and unsold at  your store while 360  flew by each hour?

The truth is that is about right... we've sold 3 slims an 5 360s... I work at Walmart and our area is pretty pro-360, but the point is still that over the holiday season you'll see a shift in console sold from the 300 dollar system to the 200 dollar system... If MS can match what they did last year it'll be a great holiday season for both console manufacturers, but Sony has opened the gates to the 30-32 million mark at best before significant slow down on the levels we saw this year occur again.  Those extra numbers that MS has been leading the PS3 with are almost all Arcade.  Valhalla hasn't been released (GPU on CPU) and Microsoft still has room to drop the Arcade significantly lower... though they'll probably keep the price and throw in Natal for the casual consumers.

The PS3  has no shot then, and America is the world.



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numonex on 08 September 2009

PS3 fans only settling for second place. I want to see some of you crazy guys make up the story on how the PS3 is going to finish first this console generation. Now that the PS3 Slim is here and things can turn around and that almost 30 million deficit in sales behind the Wii can be overtaken very easily. Just you all wait and see.
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