Shpeshal Nick
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Xisiqomelir said:
yeah, maybe in crazytown.
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NPD Sales Results for May 2007
- Thread starter sonycowboy
- Start date
yeah, maybe in crazytown.
Wii - Gotta be because it's $250. People can't still be amazed by waggle, right?
360 - Selling that low in the only market that gives a rat's ass about the 360 is a very bad sign.
PS3 - Hey Sony, the mainstream public aren't going to plop down $600 for a gaming console. Nice going retards.
360 - Selling that low in the only market that gives a rat's ass about the 360 is a very bad sign.
PS3 - Hey Sony, the mainstream public aren't going to plop down $600 for a gaming console. Nice going retards.
Merovingian said:
Yea, I shouldn't have used excuse, but the point still stands.
The time to drop the price for the X360 was 3 months ago (~18months into its lifecycle, its at 20 months now).
When did the PS2 have its first price drop? What about Xbox1?
The Faceless Master
Member
i think these numbers have been saying one thing pretty damn clearly for a while now.
DO NOT GO ABOVE $299 FOR YOUR CONSOLE
DO NOT GO ABOVE $299 FOR YOUR CONSOLE
fixed.reilo said:
NekoFever
Member
GarthVaderUK said:
MS is insane not to drop the price now. They're doing well compared to the PS3, but are fast throwing away their position with these mediocre sales month after month. If they don't drop the price at E3 and expect to limp the rest of the way to September and hope that one game will dramatically increase the number of people willing to spend $400, they could throw it away completely. Sony threw it away last E3, conversely.
I still have a sinking feeling that they're not going to move until Sony do rather than take a golden opportunity to twist the knife. They're too myopic to notice the way things are going as long as hardware costs are heading into the black and Sony is floundering.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Wollan said:
Like Mario Party 8?
sonycowboy
Member
Don't expect any other numbers than Bloomberg's (which came by way of Microsoft) and Gamedailys (came from ???) .
Cheesemeister
Member
Berserker said:
NPD said:
More or less.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Yeah, it's not lookin' all that good at the moment.AstroLad said:
I agree. Time to announce the $100 price cut to all SKUs in time for E3 as MS has first conference. I can see that they're trying to hang on to whatever slim profit margin they've got (if they have one factoring in busted ones) for as long as possible in an effort to hit profitability by end of fiscal year...but after about nineteen months at the same price (or at an even higher price thanks to the Elite SKU), that rock has been bled dry. Time to accelerate their price drop plans if they were planning on holding at current levels until August or whenever. Now is not the time to start slipping despite the fact that they're averaging twice the units sales per week (in Canada and the US) of the PS3. Wii is just unstoppable. DS is, well, DS. And PSP has gained nicely thanks to the price drop.GhaleonEB said:
soundwave05
Member
fly high ~ayunite~ said:
Nah I think MS and Sony will both drop by $100 this year. They really have no choice.
Nintendo could drop by $50, but I doubt it. They'll just release new colors and maybe a new limited run software bundle.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
Wollan said:
2. Mario Party 8WiiNintendo
derp
PS3 performed better than I expected considering the shorter month(4 weeks as opposed to Aprils 5)
Considering there were no big games released. I predicted around 60 000.
I think it may reach 90 000 next month and 100 000 plus from Setember onwards.
I dont think Sony is too worried. PS2 revenue is HUGE and the PSP is really coming along.
They have a brand loyalty that other companies can only dream of and the PS3 will benefit from this in the long term. ie when the fricken price drops
Considering there were no big games released. I predicted around 60 000.
I think it may reach 90 000 next month and 100 000 plus from Setember onwards.
I dont think Sony is too worried. PS2 revenue is HUGE and the PSP is really coming along.
They have a brand loyalty that other companies can only dream of and the PS3 will benefit from this in the long term. ie when the fricken price drops
Morbid Angel
Member
Earthstrike said:
Even the PS2 sold the most units (I think it's over 70%) when it was $199 and lower. Price is the most important reason.
Earthstrike
Member
schuelma said:
Hmmm, this is interesting. Japan sells what 75k a week roughly? So that's 300K a month. Na seems to be constant at what we can call 350k a month, And that leaves 350k a month for Europe. Seems reasonable, and given the nature of statistical deviation, seems entirely plausible.
Grampa Simpson
Banned
Ever?sonycowboy said:
The Faceless Master
Member
oh... quite a few people don't...reilo said:
Earthstrike said:
There's a difference between "Not beating Nintendo" and "Oh My God Why Aren't These Consoles Selling?" The PS3 and 360 fall into the latter catagory, and price has to be a huge factor there. That's not to say that a price cut would mean either console could beat the Wii, but people would start, like, buying them again.
It's not just games--the price point helps the Wii a lot (and Nintendo deserves credit for being the only company really aware of the impact of the price point on the consumer, so I'm not trying to belittle the Wii here), and is hurting the competition. $250 for Wii Sports is an entirely seperate realm of dollars from $600 (well, $660) for Motostorm or $400 ($460) for Gears or whatever.
jamesinclair
Banned
reilo said:
Last gen EVERYBODY had their price drop at E3 2002, aka May 2002.
However, while GC and Xbox had November releases (2001), PS2 was released october 2000.
titiklabingapat
Member
Wollan said:
I see this as Wollan melting down cause I hardly see you post anything else, not even a stealth troll to other systems
Warm Machine
Member
Cut the price on the 360 stat and make it up on the extra software sales. Just a quick $50 for now and another $50 when Halo debuts. Get that install base alot more solid!
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fly high ~ayunite~ said:
They deserve to get their ass kicked if they do that. I love everything about the console, but the people behind it are some dumb mother****ers. That is the honest to goodness truth. The Playstation brand is the weakest it's ever been and they are seemingly happy to be peddling these bullshit numbers. I seriously can't fathom this.
CreatureX3
Member
Of course it would boost sales. But it would also boost MS deeper into the red with greater losses. That is the reason why we haven't seen a price drop yet.909er said:
MS have said they are determined to get the Xbox division into the black this year. A price drop now would shatter those plans.
GhaleonEB said:
The Elite is a fine idea as a Limited Edition thing, but I cannot imagine how they were expecting it to increase sales signifigantly, and use it as a permanent third SKU. It is made all the worse for those who are actually waiting to buy the thing and it cannot be found anywhere.
The biggest problem with it is shelf space. My local Best Buy has the exact space allocated to display two different 360 boxes, unless they are doing one of those holliday pyramids from hell. I cannot understand how Microsoft thinks that retailers are going to display all of these different boxes when they make so little off of harware sales.
Cheesemeister
Member
Jokeropia said:
It was the longest April on record.
titiklabingapat
Member
sonycowboy said:
Is this going to be like this month after month now? If so...I have some unpleasant things to say about NPD.
velvet_nitemare
Member
Excellent.Price drops at E3 confirmed.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Wollan said:
You posted the Nintendo Software thing before you even looked?