February Console/Game Sales Figures

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: austin316
Black 360 = what exactly? I assume the following....

Larger Hard Drive (60GB?)
HDMI Support
HD-DVD Player Built-In
Black Color

120gb HD
Cooler 65nm processor
HDMI port
Black Color

 

[AbAbber2k]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: Mrvile
Is Wii Play seriously that good?

It's terrible. It's not worth the $10 you pay extra for the controller.

I disagree. I had a ton of fun playing it with my gf while she was visiting last week. We played that even more than Wii Sports. The only one I really don't like is the posing game, and the cow riding game, while fun to begin with, got old quick. Shooting, hockey and ping pong are my favorites, but we actually had a lot of fun playing the "Find Mii" game too.

It's definitely worth the $10... but definitely wouldn't be worth buying if it weren't a pack-in.

Edit: It sucks if you're playing by yourself though.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Don't understand why MS doesn't just go ahead and drop the price of the Premium to really put the screws to Sony and the PS3.

I for one am waiting for a price drop and a hardware revision (that runs cooler) before I buy one.

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: Mrvile
Is Wii Play seriously that good?

It's terrible. It's not worth the $10 you pay extra for the controller.

Nah, it's worth $10, but not much more. The tank game is a lot of fun.

Some of the games aren't too bad, it just has very little replay value.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: FoBoT
still can't find a wii

but the walmart i stopped at this morning had 3 wiimotes and 4 nunchucks in stock, so apparently the accessories are in good supply , finally

maybe i'll get a wii by summer time

same around here.

have not seen a wii in a store since i got mine. but have seen lots of wiimotes and nunchukcs

Looks like Nintendo might actually come close to their goal of shipping 6 million Wiis by the end of March. I'd go back and find all the people who smugly claimed that Nintendo was committing suicide by "flooding the market," but I'm sure they know they're idiots.

 

[jlmadyson]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: jlmadyson
I also talked to the guys at my local EB games about this story and they pretty much confirmed all of it. The manager even told me today to expect a SKU in their system by early April. They also stated their MS rep told them the now premium would see a price cut sometime to 299/349. There was a bit of debate on this point between the two guys, one guy said the rep said 299 for the now premium while the other said if she said 299 then to expect 349. They also stated the core is pretty much goners as well at some point. This was all confirmed to them by their MS rep, new SKU included.

heh my point exactly. it's all "someone told someone else ..." type of stories with this.

i'm not saying it's not coming out or anything, just that there is nothing official at this point. i personally don't think it's going to come out still (just for the fact of the way all these rumors came about) but if it does, sweet for the people who will take advantage of it

Your "friend to friend" point my hold if this wasn't published in a major gaming magazine this month. It is not in the rumor section or anything of that sort, two page spread on it.

 

[jlmadyson]

Also this cannot help the PS3 side of things either;

Report: Best Buy to Put 20GB PlayStation 3 on Ice

If major retailers like Best Buy just drop the $500 SKU altogether, market penetration is not going to get any easier.

 

[PricklyPete]

Originally posted by: jlmadyson
Also this cannot help the PS3 side of things either;

Report: Best Buy to Put 20GB PlayStation 3 on Ice

If major retailers like Best Buy just drop the $500 SKU altogether, market penetration is not going to get any easier.

Sony is definitely have a hard time of it.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: jlmadyson
Also this cannot help the PS3 side of things either;

Report: Best Buy to Put 20GB PlayStation 3 on Ice

If major retailers like Best Buy just drop the $500 SKU altogether, market penetration is not going to get any easier.

SCEA communications director Dave Karraker also told Joystiq last week that retailers have been overwhelming placing orders for the more expensive 60GB PS3. "Retailers have been requesting the 60GB model, the mix has been about 80 percent 60GB, 20 percent 20GB retailer orders. So, the reason you might not be seeing the 20 GB is simply that retailers have been ordering more of the 60 GB unit," said Karraker.

Sony still plans to make its 20GB PS3 available to retailers who want to sell it, but the number of retailers willing to stock the device may soon be dwindling.

Why do retailers not want to stock the 20 GB PS3? My understanding is that's the one that's in the most demand. How do retailer profits compare on the two models?

 

[PricklyPete]

Originally posted by: mugs

Why do retailers not want to stock the 20 GB PS3? My understanding is that's the one that's in the most demand. How do retailer profits compare on the two models?

Everyone is pointing to the fact that the 20GB version has almost 0% margin. The Software attach rate for the PS3 sucks...so for vendors...selling the 20GB version sucks for them. They're supposed to make up the difference in software and that just isn't happening at the moment. So really it is a business decision that will probably make it even harder for Sony to penetrate the market.

 

[jlmadyson]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: jlmadyson
Also this cannot help the PS3 side of things either;

Report: Best Buy to Put 20GB PlayStation 3 on Ice

If major retailers like Best Buy just drop the $500 SKU altogether, market penetration is not going to get any easier.

SCEA communications director Dave Karraker also told Joystiq last week that retailers have been overwhelming placing orders for the more expensive 60GB PS3. "Retailers have been requesting the 60GB model, the mix has been about 80 percent 60GB, 20 percent 20GB retailer orders. So, the reason you might not be seeing the 20 GB is simply that retailers have been ordering more of the 60 GB unit," said Karraker.

Sony still plans to make its 20GB PS3 available to retailers who want to sell it, but the number of retailers willing to stock the device may soon be dwindling.

Why do retailers not want to stock the 20 GB PS3? My understanding is that's the one that's in the most demand. How do retailer profits compare on the two models?

6 versus 11 dollars from what I heard.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
Is Wii Play seriously that good?

It sucks. You buy it to get the extra controller because there are no controllers to be found.