amicus_curious wrote:
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5426145.NIem7EtrzA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > GameStop's in the Game
> >
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> > | The healthy store-level gains were expected. The company took
> > | advantage of the voracious demand for the limited supply of Sony
> > | PS3 and Nintendo Wii systems by, in some cases, bundling them with
> > | higher-margin software, peripheral, and extended-warranty offerings.
> > | The company did the same thing with Microsoft's Xbox 360 last year,
> > | but this time it had two new systems to market, along with an ample
> > | supply of pricey 360s on hand to satisfy frustrated parents that
> > | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > | weren't able to secure a Wii or a PS3.
> > ` ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/01/04/gamestops-in-the-game.aspx?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y
> > http://tinyurl.com/tah6m
>
> At the end of the day, the scoreboard only shows the winner, not how he got
> there. It seems to me that is always Microsoft. They are sometimes winning
> 100 to 0 and sometimes only 86 to 12, but they win nonetheless. The losers
> can point with pride to their 12 points and say, since it used to be 0, that
> they are making great progress, but they are still losing by a very wide
> margin.
Given that Sony is taking a LOSS of about $300 per unit, the slowing
PS3 sales is actually saving the company a lot of money. So sure...
Microsoft only sold about 3X as many units as Sony (and sold them for a
profit and not a loss) so it's actually Roy Schestowitz that gets the
consolation prize with his little article.
http://news.punchjump.com/article.php?id=3586
<quote>
Xbox 360 outsells Wii, PS3 in U.S. holiday sales
Published: January 3, 2007 9:25 AM PDT
In its research data, the Xbox 360 sold 2 million units by Dec. 25. By
comparison, it estimates Wii sales at 1.8 million units and PS3 sales
at 750,000 units in the same period.
</quote>
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