Some US Black Friday sales numbers

[patsu]

I believe they had a PS3 Black Friday bundle (inFamous, Batman:AA and Dark Knight BR movie). Don't know what they are going to do next.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Wal Mart seems to be stressing everything but the PS3 so far, with gift cards. So far theyve done or have slated in the near future: $100 GC with Arcade, $50 GC with Wii (Dec 5-12), and $50 GC with Elite to come. But so far have not seen a PS3 GC deal from Wal Mart.

Most likely it's targetted marketting efforts from MS and Nintendo. Kinda like a "soft" price cut to judge consumer response...

Walmart makes a nice place to try stuff out (assuming you can get Walmart to play along) as they have really deep market penetration and quite a few stores...

Besides with this absolutely HUGE marketting blitz Sony is currently doing for the PS3, Walmart figured they didn't have to do anything to drum up sales for it...

Regards,
SB

 

[Akumajou]

That's being pedantic and nitpicky, and you know it.

If I turned right around and went back in to buy whatever I had come to Walmart to buy...be it Christmas gifts or whatever, I've essentially saved 100 USD buying the arcade. In other words, no matter where that money is spent, the Arcade is effectively 99 USD.

And Obonicus, that quote was from the article implying that was the kick-off of MS's sales numbers for either Black Friday or last week. If it was something else, that's really rather shoddy journalism.

Regards,
SB

The only usefull thing to get with that $99 gift card is a hard drive to make the damn purchase credible otherwise its a $300 premium ripoff when you can just buy the elite.

Argue and debate all you want its false advertising, the console needs the hdd to be used properly you have to be some missinformed cheapskate customer who opens his/her wallet asking people to take their money might as well get a Wii and games or just a ps3 to rent blu ray movies if that's an excusable case

 

[Silent_Buddha]

The only usefull thing to get with that $99 gift card is a hard drive to make the damn purchase credible otherwise its a $300 premium ripoff when you can just buy the elite.

Argue and debate all you want its false advertising, the console needs the hdd to be used properly you have to be some missinformed cheapskate customer who opens his/her wallet asking people to take their money might as well get a Wii and games or just a ps3 to rent blu ray movies if that's an excusable case

Why would you need the HDD to run games? I have installed a grand total of 2 games the whole time I've owned my X360. Even without installing, load times are often faster than the same game on PS3 with a partial install.

So I'm not exactly getting how the Arcade/Core NEEDs a HDD to be "used properly."

Sounds like sour grapes and console envy to me.

If you wanted a 99 USD console when that sale was running you could basically get a 99 USD HD console. If that wasn't an option you could always still opt for the elite. I'm really not seeing this whole doom and gloom scenario of it somehow being a ripoff...

Regards,
SB

 

[eastmen]

Why would you need the HDD to run games? I have installed a grand total of 2 games the whole time I've owned my X360. Even without installing, load times are often faster than the same game on PS3 with a partial install.

So I'm not exactly getting how the Arcade/Core NEEDs a HDD to be "used properly."

Sounds like sour grapes and console envy to me.

If you wanted a 99 USD console when that sale was running you could basically get a 99 USD HD console. If that wasn't an option you could always still opt for the elite. I'm really not seeing this whole doom and gloom scenario of it somehow being a ripoff...

Regards,
SB

Same was as live is a rip off for charging $3 a month for providing a service that sony still isn't able to match.

People will complain about anything while drumming up features of their own fav brand

 

[catisfit]

People will complain about anything while drumming up features of their own fav brand

...and vice versa. We know how it works.

I've personally just recommended an Elite over an Arcade to someone due to the HDD, although the Arcade was £129.99 for over a year and now it's £159.99, which doesn't make much sense. Had it been effectively £79.99 (with a gift card) then my recommendation might well have changed :smile:

As Silent_Buddha says, even a gift card is a net win for a customer - that's the whole point of it, to give the line a sales boost!