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From C&VG.com:
PlayStation 2 continues its dominance in the run up to Christmas with weekly sales tearing through the 100,000 mark in the UK. For the week ending December 7, PS2 shifted a total of 113,862 units, representing an increase of 23 percent on the previous week.
But Sony's hardware wasn't the only winner, with significant increases in sales found on all major platforms, with GBA, GC and Xbox all enjoying a healthy performance.
Microsoft has had much cause for celebration over recent weeks and the smile just got a whole lot broader, with Xbox enjoying the best week on week performances of all formats, selling 27,829 units - a rise of 31 percent.
And highly placed retail sources have revealed that the overwhelming majority of Xbox sales came from the Xbox Sega bundle (including Jet Set Radio Future and Sega GT 2002), accounting for well over four fifths of the total.
This pulls Xbox further clear of GameCube, with Nintendo's console notching up 11,531 sales over the same period, still a respectable 15 percent increase on the previous week's figures. But Nintendo can take comfort in healthy handheld sales, with a total of 32,345 GBA shifted - up 18 percent.
PlayStation 2 continues its dominance in the run up to Christmas with weekly sales tearing through the 100,000 mark in the UK. For the week ending December 7, PS2 shifted a total of 113,862 units, representing an increase of 23 percent on the previous week.
But Sony's hardware wasn't the only winner, with significant increases in sales found on all major platforms, with GBA, GC and Xbox all enjoying a healthy performance.
Microsoft has had much cause for celebration over recent weeks and the smile just got a whole lot broader, with Xbox enjoying the best week on week performances of all formats, selling 27,829 units - a rise of 31 percent.
And highly placed retail sources have revealed that the overwhelming majority of Xbox sales came from the Xbox Sega bundle (including Jet Set Radio Future and Sega GT 2002), accounting for well over four fifths of the total.
This pulls Xbox further clear of GameCube, with Nintendo's console notching up 11,531 sales over the same period, still a respectable 15 percent increase on the previous week's figures. But Nintendo can take comfort in healthy handheld sales, with a total of 32,345 GBA shifted - up 18 percent.
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Microsofts tactics are sly, they make profit only on the games and then bundle 2 free with every console.
*scratches head*
*scratches head*
WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> Whitestripes wrote:
> Half the people I meet are complete idiots.
> *
> 99% of the people I meet are complete idiots. That tends to happen in
> asylums.
Oh Cyclone got visitors, bless him.
What a nice monster you are :)
> Whitestripes wrote:
> Half the people I meet are complete idiots.
> *
> 99% of the people I meet are complete idiots. That tends to happen in
> asylums.
Oh Cyclone got visitors, bless him.
What a nice monster you are :)
Whitestripes wrote:
> Half the people I meet are complete idiots.
99% of the people I meet are complete idiots. That tends to happen in asylums.
> Half the people I meet are complete idiots.
99% of the people I meet are complete idiots. That tends to happen in asylums.
The GBA will continue to sell well whatever.
Why?
It has no competition. If people want a handheld, there's only one to get.
The Gamecube on the other hand is competing against MS and Sony and needs to be more competitive.
Anyway, Nintendo aren't making a loss on the Gamecube at the moment, while Sony and Microsoft are making large losses on their consoles.
Nintendo can easily afford to drop the price, and it'll be worth it to get the extra sales (more console sales = more games sold which is where the REAL profit lies, especially if you make hits as big as Zelda!).
Why?
It has no competition. If people want a handheld, there's only one to get.
The Gamecube on the other hand is competing against MS and Sony and needs to be more competitive.
Anyway, Nintendo aren't making a loss on the Gamecube at the moment, while Sony and Microsoft are making large losses on their consoles.
Nintendo can easily afford to drop the price, and it'll be worth it to get the extra sales (more console sales = more games sold which is where the REAL profit lies, especially if you make hits as big as Zelda!).
Hehe, the PS2 rules, as it should be.
Can't wait for Christmas...I migh be getting Red Faction 2, maybe Bounty Hunter, maybe The Two Towers...and I'm still playing through SmackDown SYM and Vice City.
Can't wait for Christmas...I migh be getting Red Faction 2, maybe Bounty Hunter, maybe The Two Towers...and I'm still playing through SmackDown SYM and Vice City.
Strafex wrote:
> Even if MS throwing wild deals is a sign of desperation, it's getting
> the customers.
As far as Nintendo is concerned, they are fine at the moment... in the end, they have the GBA to happily rely on for sales... GBA beat XBox over that period I noticed, even after Microsoft's price cut.
And anyway, in the end, Microsoft have deep pockets so can afford to take down the price... but we as gamers as a result cannot look to sales figures as reliable evaluations of consoles as a result. In the end if Microsoft want to cut the price to pull up the sales, fine by them. But in doing so, they are showing the rest of the gaming world that it is not the quality of the console or the games that are pulling in the customers, simply that they are rich. So we as gamers should be wary not to instantly compare sales to quality ( not naming anyone of course ), but in fact look at the games, and quality of consoles.
> Even if MS throwing wild deals is a sign of desperation, it's getting
> the customers.
As far as Nintendo is concerned, they are fine at the moment... in the end, they have the GBA to happily rely on for sales... GBA beat XBox over that period I noticed, even after Microsoft's price cut.
And anyway, in the end, Microsoft have deep pockets so can afford to take down the price... but we as gamers as a result cannot look to sales figures as reliable evaluations of consoles as a result. In the end if Microsoft want to cut the price to pull up the sales, fine by them. But in doing so, they are showing the rest of the gaming world that it is not the quality of the console or the games that are pulling in the customers, simply that they are rich. So we as gamers should be wary not to instantly compare sales to quality ( not naming anyone of course ), but in fact look at the games, and quality of consoles.
uhh yes.
Half the people I meet are complete idiots.
There are far more stupid people than there are intelligent.
Half the people I meet are complete idiots.
There are far more stupid people than there are intelligent.
Can you prove that? I think not.
Still the morons flock to buy their out of date black boxes, we really live in a nation of idiots don't we?
Still you can't expect there to be any real justice in a country that flocks to buy Gareth Gates singles by the millions.
Still you can't expect there to be any real justice in a country that flocks to buy Gareth Gates singles by the millions.
Belldandy wrote:
> No one in their right mind will by a GC because of the promise of two
> games
Even though about 70% of initial X-Box owners bought it purely because of Halo?
> No one in their right mind will by a GC because of the promise of two
> games
Even though about 70% of initial X-Box owners bought it purely because of Halo?
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