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about MS shooting themselves in the foot with both its Xbox and Xbox360 stragety thus far...
Analyst: 360 shipment lower than expected
Target number for consoles sold by Christmas likely won't be met says one industry analyst. Hoping to get an Xbox 360 in time for Christmas? It may pay to be in good with Santa Claus, according to PJ McNealy of American Technology Research.
McNealy believes that Microsoft intentionally kept supply projections low in hopes of overshooting its target come the end of the month, reports Reuters.
However, McNealy thinks the plan may have backfired. "We believe that (Microsoft) has tried to keep expectations low for retailers this holiday with the hopes of over-delivering. We believe that over-delivering is unlikely at this point," McNealy told Reuters.
All is not without hope for 360 hunters, though. McNealy predicts 300,000 next-gen consoles will hit the market next week, bringing his projection of worldwide units shipped to near 1 million. That number is still far below his initial assumption of 1.5 to 1.8 million Xbox 360s through retail by the end of 2005. As far as the software side goes, McNealy predicts further price cuts and deals over the next 12 days leading up to Christmas. He also believes that while recovering slightly from a less-than-stellar October and November is a possibility, any chance of moving beyond expectations is "unlikely."
Source: gamespot.com
Analyst: 360 shipment lower than expected
Target number for consoles sold by Christmas likely won't be met says one industry analyst. Hoping to get an Xbox 360 in time for Christmas? It may pay to be in good with Santa Claus, according to PJ McNealy of American Technology Research.
McNealy believes that Microsoft intentionally kept supply projections low in hopes of overshooting its target come the end of the month, reports Reuters.
However, McNealy thinks the plan may have backfired. "We believe that (Microsoft) has tried to keep expectations low for retailers this holiday with the hopes of over-delivering. We believe that over-delivering is unlikely at this point," McNealy told Reuters.
All is not without hope for 360 hunters, though. McNealy predicts 300,000 next-gen consoles will hit the market next week, bringing his projection of worldwide units shipped to near 1 million. That number is still far below his initial assumption of 1.5 to 1.8 million Xbox 360s through retail by the end of 2005. As far as the software side goes, McNealy predicts further price cuts and deals over the next 12 days leading up to Christmas. He also believes that while recovering slightly from a less-than-stellar October and November is a possibility, any chance of moving beyond expectations is "unlikely."
Source: gamespot.com
Bill said:
GBA:SP is $79, GBM is $99, DS is $129, and games run from $20 to $35. The fact is that people are spending buckets of money on these things and keep the Nintendo brand name in the hands of millions of players. Tie ratio for GBA is about 4.2--that's about 300 million software units sold. At an average $25 a pop, that's $7.5 billion in software sales. Even if every GBA sale was a $79 SP (it wasn't), that's $6.3 bn in hardware sales. So no, the handheld market isn't negligible, no matter how much you despise Nintendo.
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Evil_Cloud
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Looks like Xbox will be replaced entirely by Xbox 360 in the near future... Didn't they stop producing Xbox this summer? This could place GameCube and PlayStation 2 in a more favorable position, though GameCube will need a huge influx of new titles to drive the system... Or a really inexpensive Revolution with 100% BC... I am guessing Nintendo will try to push GameCube with Zelda untill the Revolution launch and beyond, but I am wondering how long they want GameCube to exist on the marketplace.
mckmas8808
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Mmmkay said:
I think those were the old numbers.
mckmas8808 said:I think those were the old numbers.
Nope
The article correctly quotes the revised 18% decline and $696m software revenues. It also corroborates all of the other revised numbers on the article's second page. Plus sonycowboy and Rhindle both confirmed they were correct
Also, the old PSP/GBA numbers were:
Game Boy Advance 892,438
PlayStation Portable 359,772
mckmas8808
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Mmmkay said:Nope
The article correctly quotes the revised 18% decline and $696m software revenues. It also corroborates all of the other revised numbers on the article's second page. Plus sonycowboy and Rhindle both confirmed they were correct
Also, the old PSP/GBA numbers were:
Game Boy Advance 892,438
PlayStation Portable 359,772
Oh well if Sonycowboy said it was correct then I believe it. How many units did the DS sale. All I seen yesterday were appox.
mckmas8808
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Mmmkay said:
So in America the PSP and DS are going head to head this Christmas. Hmmm I see good times coming ahead.
