Doesn't sound right... How does Wii come on top of 360 on your end? It wasn't much ahead of 360 last year and is a lot behind this year. PS3 hasn't been a stellar end of the year performer either.
"emergency" price cut ??
A lot behind would be 800k ahead without including regions where PS3 is likely ahead? Wii is a strong holiday performer and it is super cheap right now. Parents will still buy it despite its lack of games because of the price.
Edit: Sorry, I misread your original comment, you were talking about Wii. Damn. Even so, the second statement is still true, It is cheap and parents will buy it in droves over Xmas. On the second PS3 hasn't been a stellar end of year performer then how come last Q4 is shipped 6.3m and 6.5m Q4 before that? If this thread shows anything it is that NPD =/= World. Just because PS3 is behind 360 in the US it doesn't mean it is behind WW, as can be seen from the figures in this very thread. Also, I just asked and the "EU" figures are UK, France, Germany and Spain, the "EU" figure does not include Italy, Portugal, Benelux or Scandinavia. Neither does it include Australia where PS3 has outsold 360 and Wii by 3:1 since the price cut. If these regions were included I expect the figures would be closer to 7m for PS3...
Then again I remember reading pretty much that same sentence from you last year and probably before that also. You always say such things at the moment when the PS3 is riding the high wave, but when that wave has crashed and the game has changed, you've kept quiet. It's always six months from now. Then MS has responded and things are back to zero. No offense, but that's the way I see it.
Last year MS has the Kinect effect which I, along with many people, underestimated. This year there is no such boost. Gears is the biggest game of the year for them and the effect has already been recorded, I expect MS to be down YoY every month compared to last year. Even after the massively aggressive pricing and marketing last year from MS and Kinect, they shipped just 500k more units than Sony over the period of Kinect introduction until Sony's price cut (Q4 2010 - Q2 2011) which isn't really what I would call bringing it back to zero. Especially considering in the year prior to that MS shipped 10.3m vs Sony's 14.3m over the same period (July 2009 - June 2010) so that's + 4m then the following year (i.e. last year) Sony shipped 13.7m vs 13.7m for Xbox in it's banner Kinect year vs a normal year for Sony with no special marketing or price cuts.
Bringing it back to zero? I think not. If you manipulate the figures enough like I did in the first example then sure you can pick a couple of quarters where MS sold a few hundred thousand more units, but in general since the PS3 hit $299 it has sold better. At $249 I don't see MS catching up bar a couple of months where they cut to $149 before Sony respond with $199.
Well the Wii is pretty much going to get buried soon after the Wii U comes out, so if Sony sells PS3 in 2017 in the developing countries, your prediction is hardly enlightened.
Yes, but I said the same in 2007 when people were raving about the Wii and PS3 was in the toilet. Maybe not on this forum, but elsewhere mostly because the room for Sony to drive adoption with price cuts was huge. I said it from the start that over 10 years the PS3 can average over 10m a year for massive total sales.
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