Monday, July 22, 2013

Xbox 360, Playstation 3 And Nintendo Wii Battle For Hearts, Minds And Sales

By Richard Thompson


With the 2007 holiday season breathing down their necks the big three manufacturers of computer game consoles are preparing for a fight. They are fighting for the hearts and minds of those who play video games, and the champion will be figured out by annual sales varieties of their video game consoles. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are doing battle for prominence of the computer game sector with their Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii products, and the competition has never ever been fiercer than it is today.

At the end of August, 2007 it was Nintendo Wii that individuals were buying the most when they chose a computer game console. 404 thousand devices were bought compared with 272 thousand Xbox 360 devices and 131 thousand PlayStation 3 units. Wii has actually been offering more than the other 2 combined each month for the past 10 months according to the NDP Team, the leading company for offering information about the sales and trends of industries worldwide.

But Sony and Microsoft have plans that are being revealed as I talk. They realize that they must actually be on their game this year if they are expecting to do well against Nintendo Wii throughout the holiday. Sony is expected to release a cheaper variation of PlayStation 3 and Microsoft has actually recently released a colorful Halo 3 version of Xbox 360 at a decreased cost.

Sales of the PlayStation 3 video game consoles have been modest at best since its release. This is due to a number of aspects including a pricey preliminary sales price of 500 to 600 dollars per unit, and an absence of any video games that have accomplished cultural phenomenon status like Halo 3 did with Xbox 360. Nintendo Wii has actually been outselling both of them mainly because of its inexpensive price of 250 dollars, and the technically advanced Wii remote with the motion sensor function.

The PlayStation 3 console did pretty well in 2012 during the holiday season with 491 thousand computer game systems offered in December, 2006, according to the NDP Group data. About 1.4 million PlayStation 2 consoles were likewise sold throughout that same month, which shows how preferred its predecessor was prior to its release. Sales of both PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 began to decrease soon after that though, with just 82 thousand PlayStation 3 devices sold during April of 2007 and just 194 thousand PlayStation 2 devices sold. Nevertheless, the number of sales has actually increased in current months with 139 thousand PlayStation 3 systems offered in July of 2007 and 131 thousand offered in August, and 279 thousand and 202 thousand for PlayStation 2 throughout those months.

Sony is anticipated to introduce a 399 dollar 40GB PlayStation 3 computer game console around November 16 according to experts of the computer game sector. This step by Sony, which is in response to the lesser priced variation of Xbox 360 that was just recently launched by Microsoft will be in the nick of time for the holiday season.

There has actually been much speculation recently about whether or not Sony will be releasing their lesser priced PlayStation 3, but real evidence was just recently provided for this concept when they filed for a system model number with the FCC.

Sony is wanting to return in the race against Microsoft and their Xbox 360 computer game console which just recently released a Halo 3 version imitated their popular video game of the exact same name. Nintendo Wii is still out in front of these two product and services and running strong as we going into the 2007 holiday season.

Nintendo Wii has been far ahead in sales over Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 because its launch last year at this time. In December of 2006 there were 604 countless these computer game consoles bought. 436 thousand were then bought in January, 2007. Sales are still going sturdy lately with 425 thousand offered in July and 404 thousand in August.

Among the reasons that Nintendo Wii is selling a lot more video game systems than Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is since it is very popular in countries aside from the United States such as Japan. Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 sales are not very good in Japan. Nintendo Wii is much less costly, and the cost difference can be a vital element for the ordinary effort citizen.

As the 2007 holiday season approaches there is a fight brewing over who will rule the video game market. While Nintendo Wii has been victorious since its launch virtually a year ago offering more than the various other 2 competitors integrated every month, it is about to experience a revitalized competitors.

Microsoft and Sony have regrouped and they are both back in the fight with new versions of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. With no new item to offer, it will be interesting to see if Nintendo Wii will have the ability to remain on top of sales for video game systems this holiday season. Microsoft and Sony are going into the period with newer, less expensive and rejuvenated versions of their computer game systems. A lot of significantly, they are both companies that have actually been understood to achieve as well as exceed the business goals that they set out to achieve, and they should never ever be taken too lightly.




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