newbie3 said: The amazon deal part 1 already sold out in 3 minutes according to the thread at CAG

and amazon doesnt have unlimited stock. Amazon did this for the Ps3 (I believe) and its games too. With no sign of a bump for either HW or SW. Now what are they going to sell till they get a new shipment? Exactly, nothing. Just because something sells out doesnt mean it'll increase sales by 2 times.

newbie3 said: letsdance said: Yup, once in November and once in June. Both in '08. I can't find much info on the November one but the June one was on any Blu-ray player. One reason why this deal is shitty (for me anyway) is that you can't get 100 dollars off the Ps3. Its a walmart gift card. So basically you need to buy shit from walmart who I hate... they don't have that good of a game selection either since they have limited space. So you spend 200 on the 360... then use the gift card for the HDD and spend 40 more dollars. So basically buy an Elite for 240. Some people dont need the hard drive, not everybody is a hardcore gamer who downloads lots of stuff.   Also you can get the 60GB HDD for $89, (so basically a pro for ~200) or you can get a used 20Gb at gamestop or ebay for $20-$50. I had only a 20GB for the first 3.5 years I owned a 360 and it's honestly fine for most stuff. I really only wanted a bigger one when MS came out with optional installs.

but the gift card isnt valid with gamestop or ebay. Only Walmart. Which when I looked online only carried 135 dollar HDD.

newbie3 said: halil23 said: newbie3 said: halil23 said: kowenicki said: @prophecy wow? What wrong? Prophecy does have a point, the OP was suppose to post a news thread but turns it into flamebait thread with that useless attacking Sony statement! So tell me what so wow about that? Please don't tell me you're not comfortable with ps3 outselling xbox360 too like the OP!   Onto topic : Didn't PS3 had a similar deals and turns out not much of a boost? If true then this new deal would end up similar to PS3 in term of sales! EDIT: *looks at post above* *sigh* He's worst than I thought! I guess he lives up to his name! (-_-) How is it a worthless attacking Sony statement? Such pro-PS3 things are posted practically every post around here and nobody minds. And it's not attacking Sony, just my views. I dont think Sony will price drop and they're losing a lot of money. And the Arcade will definitely be $99 before the PS3 is.   This is my supposed "troll":   Is this a harbinger of things to come? Will a future permanent $99 Xbox 360 Arcade fly off the shelves for Microsoft? I believe so. Microsoft did not price cut this year (not really) so you better believe they will lop at least $50 off next year. Meanwhile with Sony reporting large losses in the gaming division I dont expect them to cut price in 2010. LOL some troll when every post on the front page is about how PS3 will outsell 360 forever and nobody calls that trolling, thats considered normal. Well when I see those thread they backup with reasons, while on the other hand there's threads that don't have any reasons backing up their claims, that when they're called trolls. And yeah Sony aren't going to price cut when they're already had just recently, so everyone knows Sony aren't going to do it again anytime soon! Sp really it was not necessary to put that Sony statement in your thread. @ letdance, thanks for the answer, I guess this new deal won't have much effect! I had reasons clearly explained, you are being thick and ignoring them. Please stop talking about this in this thread. I undrstand you love the PS3, but this is not the thread to talk about that And stop trolling, your last sentence was a troll.   The deal will have a lot of effect. I think 360 may outsell PS3 in NPD Nov. There could also be black friday deals on both consoles though. So far I'm not seeing any great PS3 deals though but that doesnt mean a 299 with $100 gift card PS3 deal may not happen on BF.

If you read my 1st post "Onto topic : Didn't PS3 had a similar deals and turns out not much of a boost? If true then this new deal would end up similar to PS3 in term of sales!"

And the reason I said similar sales instead of same sales because this new deal will indeed have better boost than the PS3 had, no doubt!

This is my last post on this thread, it getting off the hook!! Bye!

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PS3 : 9
Wii : 6

...Xbox 360 : ......3!!

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fxa5209 said: hmm, The arcade(plain, no bundles) didnt even make it to the top 100 sellers on Amazon video games.

That is some kind of time weighted average hour/day/week/year/whatever. A shortdeal may not show up. Or may take a while to show the effects I dont know.

 

I also have no idea how many Amazon actually had available.

 

Will probably see a modest 10-20K boost. i.e. people who were planning to buy an xbox in store Y, will probably go to Walmart to check it out.

200 dollar console is not a "impulse buy" to people who normally shop Walmart anyway. regardless how much store credit they give out

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KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
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selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878

newbie3 said: fxa5209 said: hmm, The arcade(plain, no bundles) didnt even make it to the top 100 sellers on Amazon video games. That is some kind of time weighted average hour/day/week/year/whatever. A shortdeal may not show up. Or may take a while to show the effects I dont know.   I also have no idea how many Amazon actually had available.

We saw instant improvments on other similiar sales. Such as Ps3 price drop.

This is a huge sale for the 360 in north America. Retailers are bending over backwards trying to get people in the stores and using the 360 as a loss leader maybe a strategy seen through out all of November. Target, bestbuy, sears, all may be eyeing this sale to see how well it works.

The Amazon lightning deal wouldn't account for more than a few hundred units IMO. The lightning deals on Amazon are usually for clearing stock. I doubt Amazon was carrying tens of thousands XBox Arcade in their inventory.

letsdance said: it didnt do much for the ps3 what makes you think itll work for the 360? People who were gonna buy one at gamestop will just go to wal-mart now.

First good answer in this thread. Also note that people that were thinking about buying a unit for christmas will simple move the date forward a month. So many of the sales now simple won't show up in the Xmas period. Probably gives a nice bump for MS to brag about, but the net result is that somebody (either MS or Walmart) is losing a lot of money on this deal (the manufacturing costs are probably around $220 for an arcade model). Good for those who can grab a unit now, bad store policy Imho.

Th arcade is now #1 on Amazon Video Games

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End of 2009 prediction (Made January 3, 2009)
Wii - 75 million
Xbox 360 - 42 million
PS3 - 32 million