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Forums - Sales - PS3>Wii In Japan this Week, DESPITE Wii Price Cut - thoughts!!??

Xoj on 07 October 2009
mike_intellivision said:
It will be interesting to see what the Wii's tracking is with its price drop.

After all, there was not a lot of advance notice on the Wii drop ... and there are signs that it is selling in some markets better in the second week than in the first. Meanwhile, PS3 sales have been dropping each week after the price drop and slim introduction.

This will take some time to sort out.

Mike from Morgantown

actually ps3 sales have been steady for the last 3 weeks over 200k drops are minimal so it quite stable.



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ph4nt on 07 October 2009
Xoj said:
mike_intellivision said:
It will be interesting to see what the Wii's tracking is with its price drop.

After all, there was not a lot of advance notice on the Wii drop ... and there are signs that it is selling in some markets better in the second week than in the first. Meanwhile, PS3 sales have been dropping each week after the price drop and slim introduction.

This will take some time to sort out.

Mike from Morgantown

actually ps3 sales have been steady for the last 3 weeks over 200k drops are minimal so it quite stable.

We are talking about Japan

Famtisu had something like 150k > 50k -->50k --> 37k (I might be missing a week).



Soundwave on 07 October 2009

I think we should probably also wait for Media Create hardware numbers.

They had the PS3 at only 39k last week, so if it dropped again this week, it could even be sub-30k on Media Create charts.



Avinash_Tyagi on 07 October 2009

@ montana, read what ioi wrote, that is all



 

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Kira_Shinigami on 07 October 2009

PS3 go!!!!



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Metallicube on 07 October 2009

I'm frankly shocked at all the people who somehow believe that Wii sales will be dropping again after a mere 4 days of a lower price.. Come on people use your head. Why the hell would a seemingly rational company cut $50 off their console for a mere one week increase? I mean I still stand by what I said about the Wii price drop being a dumb move, but it's not THAT dumb!

Those who point to the PS3 for evidence of a fast drop, the PS3 had a new model which boosted sales to greater heights than there would have been had there been ONLY a price drop, so of course the dropoff will be larger, because the initial spike was also larger from the new model.

I think next week will be a virtual tie between the PS3 and Wii with Wii maybe having a slight edge. After that it'll be a matter of what moves more consoles, FFXIII or NSMB Wii, but I'm about 90% sure a 2-D Mario game is more popular and will drive more sales than FFXIII. Plus, Nintendo tends to have abnormally large holiday boosts (probably from all the parents waiting to buy Nintendo products for their children).



ViolentPhlegm on 07 October 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:
@ montana, read what ioi wrote, that is all


I was just about to suggest that you should read some of ioi's posts.  ioi says price cuts move hardware.

You are alone in your opinion that they do not.



smbu2000 on 07 October 2009
ph4nt said:
Xoj said:
mike_intellivision said:
It will be interesting to see what the Wii's tracking is with its price drop.

After all, there was not a lot of advance notice on the Wii drop ... and there are signs that it is selling in some markets better in the second week than in the first. Meanwhile, PS3 sales have been dropping each week after the price drop and slim introduction.

This will take some time to sort out.

Mike from Morgantown

actually ps3 sales have been steady for the last 3 weeks over 200k drops are minimal so it quite stable.

We are talking about Japan

Famtisu had something like 150k > 50k -->50k --> 37k (I might be missing a week).

That 3rd week was the week that ToV for PS3 which is most likely why it didn't have as big as a drop off from the previous week.




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trestres on 07 October 2009

@smbu: Nop, that was the fourth week

1st week - Price cut + Redesign + Gundam Bundle. 150k
2nd week - 57k
3rd week - Tales of Vesperia launch. 50k
4th week - 50k
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hanafuda on 07 October 2009

Why would PS3 sales on the 28th, 29th, and 30th be anything to write home about? Since when would Mon to Wed be some sales boom? And if people had been holding out for a PSP or Wii, they would have got one from Thu to Sun.



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