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After interviewing an employee at the electronical retail giants Currys, I found out some rather interesting information. Being a friend of the family he didn't mind telling me a few things...Here's what I found...
Hi, how's the console sales at your store? How's X Box doing?
"It's not reaching Microsoft's expectations, sales haven't been that bad, but they could be and should be a lot better."
What about the price reduction?
"Everybody seemed to buy it when it came down in price or at full price knowing that they could get free games and a pad, but sales have slowed a lot."
Hmmm, X Box is a quality console, how's the GameCube selling?
"Not too bad, but we've still got consoles left from our initial stock of 60 from launch, probably slightly better than X Box sales right now."
I suppose PS2 is selling better than all then?
"Well yes! Actually the PlayStation 2s are still selling much better than anything else, I don't really know why, but Sony haven't lost many sales to Microsoft or Nintendo."
Currys isn't really a video game specialist though, like Game or EB - so your sales might not really show a true trend?
"Ummm, I don't know, but we can offer you 0% finance on a brand new Sony Wega widescreen over 12 months, it's just £1299.95 for the 32 inch latest..."
So there you have it.
If console wars are about sales then the PS2 - we take our hats off to you.
Hi, how's the console sales at your store? How's X Box doing?
"It's not reaching Microsoft's expectations, sales haven't been that bad, but they could be and should be a lot better."
What about the price reduction?
"Everybody seemed to buy it when it came down in price or at full price knowing that they could get free games and a pad, but sales have slowed a lot."
Hmmm, X Box is a quality console, how's the GameCube selling?
"Not too bad, but we've still got consoles left from our initial stock of 60 from launch, probably slightly better than X Box sales right now."
I suppose PS2 is selling better than all then?
"Well yes! Actually the PlayStation 2s are still selling much better than anything else, I don't really know why, but Sony haven't lost many sales to Microsoft or Nintendo."
Currys isn't really a video game specialist though, like Game or EB - so your sales might not really show a true trend?
"Ummm, I don't know, but we can offer you 0% finance on a brand new Sony Wega widescreen over 12 months, it's just £1299.95 for the 32 inch latest..."
So there you have it.
If console wars are about sales then the PS2 - we take our hats off to you.
Indeed.
All Microsoft have released is the percentage of sales of next gen sales they had in a particular week last month.
load of crap really.
Why aint they releasing any hard sales figures? (rhetorical qestion)
All Microsoft have released is the percentage of sales of next gen sales they had in a particular week last month.
load of crap really.
Why aint they releasing any hard sales figures? (rhetorical qestion)
Maybe?
Anyway, I can forsee the X Box 'doing a Dreamcast' sadly. It offers the best games, best graphics, best features, but all of them HAVE been done before. In the USA the Price of X Box is about to plummit to $200 - same as the GameCube, (£135 ish).
Why are the games so expensive, why did we pay full whack and still not received the 2 free games or pad - and why don't Microsoft update their site?
Who even cares that Munch's Oddysee is ONLY ON XBOX - what the hell even is it!
On a steadier note, Nintendo releases sales figures for their Cube - if Microsoft don't release some kind of stats, we can be sure that they're way behind.
Anyway, I can forsee the X Box 'doing a Dreamcast' sadly. It offers the best games, best graphics, best features, but all of them HAVE been done before. In the USA the Price of X Box is about to plummit to $200 - same as the GameCube, (£135 ish).
Why are the games so expensive, why did we pay full whack and still not received the 2 free games or pad - and why don't Microsoft update their site?
Who even cares that Munch's Oddysee is ONLY ON XBOX - what the hell even is it!
On a steadier note, Nintendo releases sales figures for their Cube - if Microsoft don't release some kind of stats, we can be sure that they're way behind.
Dan2K2 wrote:
> WHSmith refuse to sell ANY X Box material.
>
> Maybe they think it's about pornographic cardboard?
I would have thought that would improve sales...
> WHSmith refuse to sell ANY X Box material.
>
> Maybe they think it's about pornographic cardboard?
I would have thought that would improve sales...
Interesting. I don't think you can read much into that though...
After interviewing an employee at the electronical retail giants Currys, I found out some rather interesting information. Being a friend of the family he didn't mind telling me a few things...Here's what I found...
Hi, how's the console sales at your store? How's X Box doing?
"It's not reaching Microsoft's expectations, sales haven't been that bad, but they could be and should be a lot better."
What about the price reduction?
"Everybody seemed to buy it when it came down in price or at full price knowing that they could get free games and a pad, but sales have slowed a lot."
Hmmm, X Box is a quality console, how's the GameCube selling?
"Not too bad, but we've still got consoles left from our initial stock of 60 from launch, probably slightly better than X Box sales right now."
I suppose PS2 is selling better than all then?
"Well yes! Actually the PlayStation 2s are still selling much better than anything else, I don't really know why, but Sony haven't lost many sales to Microsoft or Nintendo."
Currys isn't really a video game specialist though, like Game or EB - so your sales might not really show a true trend?
"Ummm, I don't know, but we can offer you 0% finance on a brand new Sony Wega widescreen over 12 months, it's just £1299.95 for the 32 inch latest..."
So there you have it.
If console wars are about sales then the PS2 - we take our hats off to you.
Hi, how's the console sales at your store? How's X Box doing?
"It's not reaching Microsoft's expectations, sales haven't been that bad, but they could be and should be a lot better."
What about the price reduction?
"Everybody seemed to buy it when it came down in price or at full price knowing that they could get free games and a pad, but sales have slowed a lot."
Hmmm, X Box is a quality console, how's the GameCube selling?
"Not too bad, but we've still got consoles left from our initial stock of 60 from launch, probably slightly better than X Box sales right now."
I suppose PS2 is selling better than all then?
"Well yes! Actually the PlayStation 2s are still selling much better than anything else, I don't really know why, but Sony haven't lost many sales to Microsoft or Nintendo."
Currys isn't really a video game specialist though, like Game or EB - so your sales might not really show a true trend?
"Ummm, I don't know, but we can offer you 0% finance on a brand new Sony Wega widescreen over 12 months, it's just £1299.95 for the 32 inch latest..."
So there you have it.
If console wars are about sales then the PS2 - we take our hats off to you.