Console Sales

[jvd]

Sony, which shipped 440,000 of its PlayStation One consoles to in New Zealand, equivalent to a console in one in three homes, believes it will sell 300-350,000 PS2 units here over the life of the product.

Wait so they shipped 440k consoles but only believe they are going to sell 300-350k of those ? This is ps1 too. When was this release from ?

 

[London Geezer]

Sony, which shipped 440,000 of its PlayStation One consoles to in New Zealand, equivalent to a console in one in three homes, believes it will sell 300-350,000 PS2 units here over the life of the product.

Wait so they shipped 440k consoles but only believe they are going to sell 300-350k of those ? This is ps1 too. When was this release from ?

Huh? shipped 440k ps1s but believe they will sell 300k ps2s?? that doesn't make sense.... like saying: "we shipped 200mil oranges and we believe we will sell 100k coconuts!"

 

[Deepak]

maybe NZ's young pop is suddenly down, hence less console sales.

 

[cthellis42]

Consoles interest in general might be dipping, they might not be embracing a higher price, the PS2 might have less time on the market than the PS1 ran with (since they have to pick an arbitrary "end of product" timeframe anyway--technically the PS1 hasn't ended yet itelf. Maybe VERY few NZ'ers are apt to double-console buy, so the added competition will subtract from PS2 sales what the PS1 didn't have to worry about...? Maybe fewer NZ'ers buy a console each generation, so sales of the PS1 could impact sales of this gen's consoles? <shrugs> Who knows, could be a lot of factors. It's certainly not "illogical" just from that statement.

 

[mark_f1man]

Not sure why they would expect the PS2 to sell less units that PS/PSOne. Perhaps:
1. Expect shorter lifecycle for PS2?
2. Increased competition from Microsoft?
3. Competition from other devices eg. PSP?

 

[akira888]

The obvious answer is that, in any organization, when estimating your group's performance you go for the lowest numbers your superiors will believe. That way, when the real numbers arrive, you're almost guaranteed to look as if you've overachieved.

 

[Bohdy]

Its funny, despite the Gamecube being a tremendous failure in Australia (everyone seems to think so), it is still selling relatively better than the Xbox in Japan

 

[Teasy]

Bohdy

Haven't you heard, the Japanese market doesn't matter anymore... now Australia, that's a significant market

 

[jvd]

Sony, which shipped 440,000 of its PlayStation One consoles to in New Zealand, equivalent to a console in one in three homes, believes it will sell 300-350,000 PS2 units here over the life of the product.

Wait so they shipped 440k consoles but only believe they are going to sell 300-350k of those ? This is ps1 too. When was this release from ?

Huh? shipped 440k ps1s but believe they will sell 300k ps2s?? that doesn't make sense.... like saying: "we shipped 200mil oranges and we believe we will sell 100k coconuts!"

Hehe thats my bad . Miss read the ps2 haha it was late leave me be *runs into a corner*

 

[YeuEmMaiMai]

I skipped over the N64/playstation era although I have played with both. During this time PC games were my main intrest.....

 

[Teasy]

Back on topic:

GC number one in Canada for October:

VANCOUVER, November 20, 2003 ? The September 25th price drop of Nintendo GameCube to an MSRP of $139.95, continues to have a massive ripple effect throughout the Canadian video game industry. Nintendo of Canada has taken the lead heading into the holiday season. For the first time in almost 2 years, Sony PlayStation 2 has been knocked off the leadership throne in the Canadian video game hardware industry. Nintendo of Canada has the two top-selling systems for the month of October with the #1 selling Game Boy Advance and the #2 selling Nintendo GameCube.

Together, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo GameCube accounted for almost 60 per cent of all hardware systems sold in Canada. In the much publicized console wars, it was Nintendo GameCube that won the battle. Nintendo GameCube captured 43 per cent leadership share of the console market in October. Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft X-box trailed with 34 per cent and 23 per cent, respectively.

 

[zurich]

Back on topic:

GC number one in Canada for October:

VANCOUVER, November 20, 2003 ? The September 25th price drop of Nintendo GameCube to an MSRP of $139.95, continues to have a massive ripple effect throughout the Canadian video game industry. Nintendo of Canada has taken the lead heading into the holiday season. For the first time in almost 2 years, Sony PlayStation 2 has been knocked off the leadership throne in the Canadian video game hardware industry. Nintendo of Canada has the two top-selling systems for the month of October with the #1 selling Game Boy Advance and the #2 selling Nintendo GameCube.

Together, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo GameCube accounted for almost 60 per cent of all hardware systems sold in Canada. In the much publicized console wars, it was Nintendo GameCube that won the battle. Nintendo GameCube captured 43 per cent leadership share of the console market in October. Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft X-box trailed with 34 per cent and 23 per cent, respectively.

That's an olderish press release Teasy.

It's interesting, at the Best Buy where I work, the Xbox is the only system that we make a profit on (~$6), whereas GC and PS2 each loose $6 or so.

And from my observations there, the PS2 and Xbox are equally flying off the shelves in sick numbers, the GC sales surge somewhat died about a month ago when the price went back up (was $99 CDN after a $40 CDN rebate, then $119 CDN flat, now back up to $139 CDN). The GBA is selling frighteningly well though. Oh, and being paid to demo EyeToy all day long is wicked fun

Microsoft has instore Xbox reps, which is interesting, as neither Sony or Nintendo do. The guys there are actually pretty cool and dispel ALOT of the common/retarded myths, ie: that you still need a memory card to save on Xbox, that it supports DD5.1/480p, etc.

I still think the KOTOR/MechAssault bundle should have been standard though. *cringes* @ Clone Wars/Tetris Worlds heh.

offtopic: random interesting fact. That particular Best Buy has been open since Fall 2002. Since it opened, they have gone through 15 display PS2s, but not a single Xbox or GC. *cues conspiracy music*

 

[Teasy]

Old yes, but they've only just came to my attention and haven't been posted here until now. In the words of the original poster:

I would be interested to know how the console sales figures for different territories pan out

Just getting this thread back on topic.

Thanks for the info from your store, still you have to remember its only one store. We'll have to wait until the next Canadian sales numbers to see if its indicitive of the whole of the country or not.

BTW shouldn't November U.S numbers be out by now? Anyone seen them?