Post-price cut, Xbox 360 sales increase really very much a lot
- September 11th, 2008
- 4 Comments
Well! It looks like that price cut for the Xbox 360 is doing wonders for sales. Compared to the last pre-price cut weekend, Microsoft says sales of the Xbox 360 at some retailers rose 100 percent. That is, if Store A sold 10 Xboxen the weekend of August 29, it sold 20 Xboxen the weekend of September 5.
Or, in English, if you lower the price of something, more people are able to afford it, and then they buy it.
Now, Microsoft selling a bunch more consoles is one thing, but what’s more interesting is to see how Sony and Nintendo react. While I doubt Nintendo needs to cut the price of its still hard to find console, Sony may want to consider some sort of price cut for the 360. After all, saying you’ve got the most affordable Blu-ray player on the market, one that also keeps your kids entertained, would look nice on a retail flyer.
Aaron (Who am I?)
2 months ago
pssssss…. Sony doesn’t sell the 360, they sell the PlayStation.
end pssssssss
hannibalchew (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Yet another xbox post from “cruchbox360″ yawn…..
Simon (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Sony’s crap that the PS3 should cost more because of more power and Blu-ray is groundless.
Because the 360 had a year head start and established itself in millions of homes, game makers develop games for it that they then port over to the PS3. This is proven by how every game on both consoles looks very similar graphically despite the PS3 being twice as powerful. They’re not utilizing this because unlike the PS2 with sold 10’s millions and garnered exclusivity, the PS3 is coming 3rd in a 3 horse race and really only by “payola” to a game maker can they get exclusivity. Trouble for Sony is most of their “payola” has been spent bribing the movie studios to choose Blu-ray.
Oh yeah, the PS3 plays games and Blu-ray, but it doesn’t do both at the same time. At any one time you can only be doing one of the two. It doesn’t solve the problem of kids wanting to play video games while folks wanting to watch a Hi-def movie. As for the bigger capacity discs means larger better games? Well with GTA IV at only 3.4GB in size and Bioshock at 4.8GB, one wonders if we will ever see a game utilizing even 25GB of a single layer Blu-ray disc when it seem many games don’t even utilize the capacity of standard 8.5GB DVD.
tristan (Who am I?)
2 weeks ago
ya boring ps3 xbox gets the ladys