Monday, April 1, 2013

Playstation, XBox 360, and Nintendo Wii Battle For Market Supremacy

By Richard Thompson


With the 2007 holiday season breathing down their necks the huge 3 producers of computer game systems are gearing up for a fight. They are fighting for the hearts and minds of those who play computer games, and the champion will be figured out by yearly sales varieties of their computer game systems. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are doing battle for supremacy of the video game industry with their Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii items, and the competition has actually never been fiercer than it is today.

At the end of August, 2007 it was Nintendo Wii that people were getting the most when they picked a video game console. 404 thousand devices were bought compared to 272 thousand Xbox 360 units and 131 thousand PlayStation 3 devices. Wii has been selling more than the various other 2 combined each month for the past 10 months according to the NDP Team, the top company for providing info about the sales and trends of industries worldwide.

But Sony and Microsoft have strategies that are being unveiled as I talk. They recognize that they must truly be on their game this year if they are anticipating to do well against Nintendo Wii during the holiday. Sony is expected to release a more economical version of PlayStation 3 and Microsoft has actually just recently released a vibrant Halo 3 version of Xbox 360 at a reduced rate.

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 quite well in 2012 throughout the holiday with 491 thousand video game systems offered in December, 2006, according to the NDP Team data. About 1.4 million PlayStation 2 consoles were additionally sold throughout that same month, which demonstrates how preferred its predecessor was prior to its launch. Sales of both PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 began to decline right after that though, with just 82 thousand PlayStation 3 devices offered throughout April of 2007 and only 194 thousand PlayStation 2 devices sold. Nonetheless, the lot of sales has actually increased in current months with 139 thousand PlayStation 3 systems offered in July of 2007 and 131 thousand sold 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 industry. This step by Sony, which is in feedback to the lower priced variation of Xbox 360 that was recently launched by Microsoft will be just in time for the holiday.

There has been much speculation lately about whether Sony will be launching their lower priced PlayStation 3, but genuine proof was just recently offered this theory when they declared a system model number with the FCC.

Sony is hoping to get back in the race against Microsoft and their Xbox 360 computer game console which recently released a Halo 3 version imitated their popular video game of the same name. Nintendo Wii is still out in front of these 2 products and running strong as we going into the 2007 holiday.

Nintendo Wii has been far ahead in sales over Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 since its launch last year at this time. In December of 2006 there were 604 hundred of these video game consoles purchased. 436 thousand were then purchased in January, 2007. Sales are still going sturdy lately with 425 thousand sold 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 approaches there is a battle brewing over who will rule the computer game market. While Nintendo Wii has actually been victorious since its release practically a year ago selling more than the others two rivals combined each month, it is about to run into a revitalized competitors.

Microsoft and Sony have actually regrouped and they are both back in the fight with brand-new variations of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. With no brand-new product and services to offer, it will be interesting to see if Nintendo Wii will be able to stay on top of sales for computer game systems this holiday. Microsoft and Sony are going into the season with more recent, less costly and rejuvenated variations of their video game consoles. Many importantly, they are both business that have actually been understood to attain and even surpass the business goals that they set out to complete, and they should never be taken too lightly.




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