Dr The Singh Posted 23 April 2007 Posted 23 April 2007 Guys, I was walking in the town centre and I walked past Gamestation store and the PS3 including X-Men 3 reduced to £399.99. Looks like the PS3 has stank in the market place, what a boo-boo by Sony!!
hairy Posted 23 April 2007 Posted 23 April 2007 Your not wrong you know http://www.gamestation.co.uk/discountaddal...?discountid=135
Manwell Pablo Posted 23 April 2007 Posted 23 April 2007 Yeah watch their sales rocket now!!! : : : : : \/
coale39 Posted 23 April 2007 Posted 23 April 2007 Guys,I was walking in the town centre and I walked past Gamestation store and the PS3 including X-Men 3 reduced to £399.99. Looks like the PS3 has stank in the market place, what a boo-boo by Sony!! Yeah hope it falls down a bit more before GTA IV
Daggers Posted 23 April 2007 Posted 23 April 2007 Not as bad as Nintendo - at least Sony have product on the shelves... ...where are the Wii's? Ahh...still on order?! A company running its business this badly deserves to go under.
THEBIGJOHNSTEADER; Posted 23 April 2007 Posted 23 April 2007 Yeah hope it falls down a bit more before GTA IV bloke i work with bought one for £360 at Costco at the weekend
Trumpet Posted 23 April 2007 Posted 23 April 2007 Yeah hope it falls down a bit more before GTA IV GTA IV is going to be released on the 360 too, happy days
Monk Posted 23 April 2007 Posted 23 April 2007 Not as bad as Nintendo - at least Sony have product on the shelves......where are the Wii's? Ahh...still on order?! A company running its business this badly deserves to go under. I still think Nintendo are doing that as a means of making their product more exclusive. if they really wanted to satisfy demand I bet they could. Its a known marketing gimmick. Good on em I say.
Daggers Posted 23 April 2007 Posted 23 April 2007 Its a known marketing gimmick. Yea - over the first week...but not for the first four months to market while the two competitors have flooded stores with their merchandise. You would expect the stores to be stocked at the end of January, but we are hitting the end of April and still it dribbles into store rooms - they loused up the launch because they didn't plan for demand or strategise for production problems...they've hit both and are desperately fire-fighting. In the meantime, potential customers are taking their money elsewhere. Just like the PS3 has been burned by delaying to market so too will Nintendo if they don't sort it out very quickly.
Phube Posted 24 April 2007 Posted 24 April 2007 Nintendo are selling 1 million Wii's a month... they can't make any more, even they didn't think it'd be this popular!!!
Finnegan Posted 24 April 2007 Posted 24 April 2007 Yup, Blockbuster own gamestation, so they've got 'em at the same price. The Irish bloke that runs Xtravision runs the UK marketing dept and he wants to start selling consoles, phones, mp3 players and fook knows what else at stupidly cut retail prices. Globally, the PS3 won't drop much more though - 'cos of the cost of the parts Sony reckon they'll be charging retailers the same for months if not years as they're already running at a loss. So any come down in price will be up to shops voluntarily cutting their profits just to sell them.
Phube Posted 24 April 2007 Posted 24 April 2007 Yup, Blockbuster own gamestation, so they've got 'em at the same price. The Irish bloke that runs Xtravision runs the UK marketing dept and he wants to start selling consoles, phones, mp3 players and fook knows what else at stupidly cut retail prices. Globally, the PS3 won't drop much more though - 'cos of the cost of the parts Sony reckon they'll be charging retailers the same for months if not years as they're already running at a loss. So any come down in price will be up to shops voluntarily cutting their profits just to sell them. Yup, they lose something like $400 per console !!! Good business!!!
Strokes Posted 24 April 2007 Posted 24 April 2007 Seriously guys hold out, more reductions are certain to follow. I work quite closley with Sony and they are shocked by the apathy in sales, they really didn't read the market at all.
Phube Posted 24 April 2007 Posted 24 April 2007 Seriously guys hold out, more reductions are certain to follow. I work quite closley with Sony and they are shocked by the apathy in sales, they really didn't read the market at all. Where's Idea or Ikea when you need his input... he works for SCEE!
Strokes Posted 24 April 2007 Posted 24 April 2007 Yup, they lose something like $400 per console !!!Good business!!! The money is made on games, controllers, dance matts and all other accesories.
Phube Posted 24 April 2007 Posted 24 April 2007 The money is made on games, controllers, dance matts and all other accesories. No console in homes = poor sales of the above mentioned!!
wirralsimon Posted 24 April 2007 Posted 24 April 2007 Nintendo are selling 1 million Wii's a month... they can't make any more, even they didn't think it'd be this popular!!! The GameCube did poorly in most markets putside Japan, so it may well be they simply haven't got the capacity to produce more than a million Wiis a month. Simon
Strokes Posted 24 April 2007 Posted 24 April 2007 No console in homes = poor sales of the above mentioned!! Absolutely, there pricing is way off for value at the moment and they will lose face big time if they don't drop the price and shift some consoles quick. They also upset a hell of alot of gamers by delaying the european launch as if we're not as important as Japan or USA. This they may never make back.
potter3 Posted 24 April 2007 Posted 24 April 2007 Yeah watch their sales rocket now!!! : : : : : \/ Yeah but if you take into account the price they are selling each for, Sony have made more money already (Not counitng costs for producing each console)
Trumpet Posted 24 April 2007 Posted 24 April 2007 Yeah but if you take into account the price they are selling each for, Sony have made more money already (Not counitng costs for producing each console) Based on Phube's sig, its as follows: Xbox360 - £3,786,329,520 Wii - £1,331,259,400 PS3 - £1,752,811,200 And i priced the Wii at £200, 360 at £360, and the PS3 at £600.
potter3 Posted 24 April 2007 Posted 24 April 2007 Thts more than the value I used for both, but I didn't do one for the 360.
Phube Posted 25 April 2007 Posted 25 April 2007 Yeah but if you take into account the price they are selling each for, Sony have made more money already (Not counitng costs for producing each console) If by losing, at least $400 dollar per console, you mean making money then yeah!! Good point!! EDIT: Oh yeah MS lose at least $300 dollars per Premium XBox360!!
Phube Posted 25 April 2007 Posted 25 April 2007 Weekly Japanese sales figures: . Console Week Sales : Last Week Sales 1 Nintendo DS Lite 133,471 : 110,845 2 Wii 75,759 : 52,583 3 PlayStation Portable 24,850 : 31,503 4 PlayStation 2 12,872 : 14,234 5 PlayStation 3 11,948 : 14,520 6 Xbox 360 2,900 : 2,963 That's almost 7:1!!
Manwell Pablo Posted 25 April 2007 Posted 25 April 2007 Weekly Japanese sales figures:. Console Week Sales : Last Week Sales 1 Nintendo DS Lite 133,471 : 110,845 2 Wii 75,759 : 52,583 3 PlayStation Portable 24,850 : 31,503 4 PlayStation 2 12,872 : 14,234 5 PlayStation 3 11,948 : 14,520 6 Xbox 360 2,900 : 2,963 That's almost 7:1!! Yeah, thats not to bad seeing as it's been out a lot longer and MS isn't very popular in Japan. Since when has anyone cared about the Japense sales charts anyway, you really are a geek!
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