drkohler said: 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.

Are they?  Prove it or link it.  I highly doubt it is anywhere near that.

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Now we can wait for Sony to match this deal.

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I predict 250,000 units sold today alone.

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@drkholer that's not really the way consumption and spending work when doing a High end loss leader. The concept is to get people to spend money they weren't going to spend, and it works. Peole don't move their purchase up, they purchase something they were never going to buy. The concept of a $99 console may or may not work but it's important to understand the concept.

You can add my data to the OP. I was going to do my own thread but I was too busy buying 360's and researching to get on here.

My data:
I went to 5 stores this morning. The number of Xbox 360's per store was 16, 18, 20, 15, and 20. I was also informed that this deal will last until Friday, November 13th. All the other deals end today, but with the 360 + Gift Card deal, that will last all week until the 13th. Every store I went to was sold out of all their 360 Arcades by 9:45 AM this morning. I was told that more shipments were coming in today at 4:00 PM.

So, depending on the number of shipments gets made this week, and the word of mouth that this deal does go all week, this could potentially put the 360 up even higher than your prediction. I have a feeling the average for today was only ~20 per store, but once you factor that in with at least 2 or 3 more shipments this week, that's at least 210,000 sales this week in the US alone for the 360. That would give it around 290-300k for the week worldwide. So with another shipment coming in today at 4:00PM already, you can probably expect 4 or 5 shipments this week.

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From the Almighty Analyst txrattlesnake!!!!!!!! Alan Wake will have fewer sales than Too Human or Ninja Gaiden 2. Heavy rain will sell at least two million copies. Fable isn't a system seller. Halo is burning out. Gears is the only big 360 exclusive and the only system seller they have for Nextbox. Games on one console and PC ARE exclusive games, no matter how much a fanboy cries about it.

@nightsurge

no no no... cheap consoles don't increase sales... read back in the thread the proof is there.



If what you are sayin gis true then yes the 360 will do BIG numbers this week..

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kingofwale said: 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

I have a feeling you will be very very wrong.  Based on my anecdotal research and information, and personal experiences, I would say the boost for this week (ending today) and the boost for next week combined will be about 130-150k+.

As far as impulse buy, there were at least 5 people in lines today that I saw who were just there for a laptop or TV, but changed their minds and bought a 360 as well while they were at the counter.  That'd be an impulse buy

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From the Almighty Analyst txrattlesnake!!!!!!!! Alan Wake will have fewer sales than Too Human or Ninja Gaiden 2. Heavy rain will sell at least two million copies. Fable isn't a system seller. Halo is burning out. Gears is the only big 360 exclusive and the only system seller they have for Nextbox. Games on one console and PC ARE exclusive games, no matter how much a fanboy cries about it.

kowenicki said: @nightsurge no no no... cheap consoles don't increase sales... read back in the thread the proof is there. If what you are sayin gis true then yes the 360 will do BIG numbers this week..

Oh I have no doubt it will do gangbusters.  I was surprised to see lines of 20+ people for 360's this morning.  I was able to snag 2 myself (one for my brother and one for my rents) and get 2 - $100 gift cards

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From the Almighty Analyst txrattlesnake!!!!!!!! Alan Wake will have fewer sales than Too Human or Ninja Gaiden 2. Heavy rain will sell at least two million copies. Fable isn't a system seller. Halo is burning out. Gears is the only big 360 exclusive and the only system seller they have for Nextbox. Games on one console and PC ARE exclusive games, no matter how much a fanboy cries about it.

Nightsurge,
Pictures and documentation or it didn't happen Mr. researcher.

on a side note, I went to 10 Mcdonalds this morning and 75% of the people in front of me in each ordered a coffee, I don't know how many Mcdonalds there are in the world but that's a shit load of coffee

I stand by my earlier prediction still.

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