Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Darth Chaos on Monday 17 December 2007 10:52 : \____
>
>> On Dec 17, 12:47 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> ____/ Darth Chaos on Monday 17 December 2007 03:38 : \____
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Dec 15, 8:24 pm, Kier <val...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:40:40 +0000, Tim Smith wrote:
>>> >> > Total worldside sails of PS3 are just over 7 million, not the 10
>>> >> > million you claim in the subject line.
>>>
>>> >> > On 2007-12-15, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> >> PS3 tops Wii in Japan for first time
>>> >> > ...
>>> >> >> Japan PlayStation sales beat Wii
>>> >> > ...
>>> >> >> PS3 overtakes Wii in Japan
>>> >> > ...
>>> >> >> Price cut boosts PlayStation 3 sales
>>>
>>> >> > The price cut gave a short burst, and then sales fell back. Here are
>>> >> > the weekly Japanese sales for Wii and PS3 for the last 8 weeks.
>>>
>>> >> > Week Ending PS3 Wii
>>>
>>> >> > Oct 21 14856 28106
>>> >> > Oct 28 17740 31407
>>> >> > Nov 04 17051 39505
>>> >> > Nov 11 57081 34947
>>> >> > Nov 18 47011 35793
>>> >> > Nov 25 55368 50934
>>> >> > Dec 02 39827 73246
>>> >> > Dec 09 36539 115762
>>>
>>> >> > The PS3 price cut gave it a nice boost for the weeks ending Nov 11 and
>>> >> > 18, and then the boost from that started rapidly falling. Note that by
>>> >> > Nov 25, the general holiday pickup is happening, so that 55k for the
>>> >> > PS3 is a mix of the fading boost from the price cut and the rising
>>> >> > sales
>>> >> > from the holiday boost. By the next week, it looks like the price cut
>>> >> > boost is gone, and it is just the holiday boost, leaving the PS3 back
>>> >> > in its customary space far far behind Wii.
>>>
>>> >> I believe the Wii would be selling even better if they could make enough
>>> >> of them, from what I've heard. They can't keep up with demand.
>>>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Kier
>>>
>>> > Sounds more like Nintendo's pulling one of their old strategies :
>>> > artificial shortages. They were VERY notorious for doing that in the
>>> > NES days (especially from 1986-1990).
>>>
>>> Microsoft does that all the time. I don't know if Sony faked it, but based
>>> on the reports that were specific (naming components), it was real last
>>> year.
>>>
>>> --
>>> ~~ Best of wishes
>>>
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>> http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=107465
>>
>> GameStop calls Wii shortage "intentional"
>>
>>
> http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/nintendo-planning-to-milk-its-wii-shortage-through-the-holidays/
>>
>> Nintendo planning to milk its Wii shortage through the holidays
>
> What a lovely industry we have. Microsoft stuffs the channels, Nintendo and
> Microsoft (Zune) might be pretending there are shortage, Microsoft forces
> everyone to 'buy' (not deploy) Vista and if someone wants a downgrade to XP,
> that counts of 2 Vista sales...
>
> The fathers of statistics must be spinning like ballerinas in their graves.
>
I've never been convinced by the sudden Wii shortages. They seemed to
happen so close to a time when the PS3 was doing rather well indeed. By
the way, I doubt that the figures were faked, however, getting real
global sales numbers of anything is extremely difficult.
Timmy won't want the PS3 to be successful, because it doesn't
red-screen, it doesn't burn houses down, and it runs linux. I wouldn't
trust any figure he picked up from anywhere.
Worse, what he omits is perhaps more interesting than what he includes,
so take a look at this:
1. Nintendo DS: 78,884
2. PlayStation Portable: 58,964
3. PlayStation 3: 55,924
4. Nintendo Wii: 34,456
5. PlayStation 2: 9043
6. Xbox 360: 5817
These figures are for the 16/11, just a month ago, and the URL is here:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=30710
Sony total sales: ~114,000
Nintendo total sales: ~111,000
Microsoft total sales: ~6,000
Now, doesn't that put a rather different tint on the picture?
Sony and Nintendo for this particular week were selling about even
across their product range in terms of units. Of course, Sony's revenue
is likely to be hugely outweighing Nintendo's because the PS3 costs
rather more than the DS, but that won't help in the long run if the PS3
is not successful.
But Microsoft are being outsold at 20:1 by *both* Sony and Nintendo.
Now that, for me, is a far more significant headline...
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