Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) analyst Jesse Divnich says Microsoft and Sony may have no option but to lower the cost of the Xbox 360 and PS3 as both systems appear to have saturated their market potential at their current price points.
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Lombardi told CVG, "We're not PS3 developers - we're doing PC and 360 like with Orange Box. EA came to us and said 'Wow, Orange box was an incredible project, can we do a PS3 version?'...If you mention a new Half-Life, people want to make as many versions of it as possible. If Left 4 Dead is big, then we may see a PS3 version later, or if and when we do a sequel, people may be more interested in that."
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"What we've heard anecdotally from our retail partners is that the Xbox 360 version of the game is outselling the PS3 version by a margin of two-to-one," said Aaron Greenberg, director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live during an interview Thursday. "That mirrors what we saw with pre-orders, but it continues to hold true at retail, at least for the first couple of days. It's a great sign."
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Lazard Capital’s Colin Sebastian published the following note; “We estimate 35 percent growth in March software data,” he said. “Next week, NPD is scheduled to release industry sell-through data for the month of March. We believe software sales benefited from several strong new title releases, catalog sales of titles such as Call of Duty (ATVI) and Rock Band (MTV/ERTS), the shift of the Easter holiday into March (from April last year), earlier spring breaks, and improving PS3 hardware sales.”
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For fiscal year 2008 (which ended this March), Sony sold 9 million PS3 units globally, Microsoft sold 9.5 million Xbox 360s and Nintendo sold 18.5 million Wiis. For fiscal year 2009 (ending next March), Ernst forecasts that Microsoft will sell 11.2 million units of the Xbox 360 worldwide, Sony will sell 12.5 million PS3s and Nintendo will sell 23 million Wiis.
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Capcom's Christian Svensson: "The sales life cycle of a product is shrinking. If a game undersells its first month at retail, it's finished at retail. Often, though, it's quicker: if a game underperforms its first week, it is more than likely 'dead on arrival'."
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$332 million was spent on the X360 platform this month, capturing 39% of the generation’s ecosystem, $235 million was spent on the PS3 and $283 million was spent on the Wii. X360 “CoD4” was the best-selling console game across all platforms, outselling the PlayStation 3 version by 2:1. According to Feb NPD, X360 sold $184 million in games, with PS3 selling $97 million and Wii $130 million.
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� We expect January U.S. retail video game console software sales data to be released after market close on Thursday, February 14. We forecast sales of $500 million, -9% compared to last year�s $549 million. It is important to note that this January comprises only four weeks compared to five weeks last year. On an adjusted 4-week comparison, our estimate of $500 million represents +14% sales growth.
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In a new stats-centric weekly column, Matt Matthews examines the great mystery of the software tie ratio, and what the most up-to-date tie ratios mean for their respective platform holders.
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According to Jesse Divnich, an analyst with the simExchange Microsoft's newly will lead to a slight dip in U.S. The prediction market shows a decreased forecast for Xbox 360 sales in October from an expected 315,000 units down to 304,000 units
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