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December 7th, 2009 at 04:00pm
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If you read the first installment in the latest installment of “Pachter Predixx,” you already know that the analyst’s new report praises the PS3 for its resilience during these troubled times. According to the report, the PS3 saw an 85-percent year-over-year sales increase in November, while the Wii and Xbox 360 suffered sales declines. This reversal in fortune leads Pachter and his Wedbush associates to a surprising conclusion: “We think that the PS3 will again outsell the Xbox 360 in November and December, prompting a price cut some time early next year.”
Pachter adds that while Microsoft “has the ability to lower price yet again,” it probably won’t do so until “it begins to lose significant market share to Sony.” As with all conjecture — even when delivered by professional conjecture conjurers — we suggest considering Pachter’s educated guess as just that: a guess.
Pachter predicts another Xbox 360 price cut in 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 11th, 2009 at 12:20pm
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Though the median age of video gamers has increased dramatically over the past decade, a recent report from the NPD Group shows that youngsters still possess a great deal of market dominance — according to the study, households with children ages 12 and under constitute 45 percent of the gaming industry’s total sales. Considering these tweens only make up 17 percent of the U.S. population, that’s a fairly large chunk of selling power.
Still, it’s tough to completely trust these numbers — as we all know, 13-year-olds are vile, fraudulent creatures who are quick to shave a few years off their age in the pursuit of pure vanity. Just be yourself, 13-year-olds. You’ve got plenty of good years ahead of you.
NPD: Households with kids still the biggest game purchasers originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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August 11th, 2009 at 03:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
We imagine those six multicolored lines you see above are going to cause quite a stir among the various fanboy contingencies — they represent the percentage of “active users” on different consoles in the first half of 2009, according to survey data compiled by Nielsen. As you can see, the Xbox 360 dominated the charts, while the ubiquitously successful Wii came in dead last by a huge margin, ranking below the PS2, original Xbox and GameCube.
Our initial reaction to this data was that Nielsen is high on pot, but we can kinda understand what caused the Wii’s disappointing placement on the list — the chart is tracking the percent of console owners who use their gaming hardware on a regular basis. Everyone and their dog owns a Wii by this point, but very few actually play them consistently, according to Nielsen’s findings. Meanwhile, there’s only a handful of GameCubes out there that haven’t been converted into lunchboxes, and their owners apparently use them a bit more frequently.
If you’re looking for a more straightforward breakdown of console usage, Nielsen also figured the overall usage totals for each console. That chart’s posted after the jump. (You’ll find it slightly above the deluge of inflammatory comments.)
[Via IndustryGamers]
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Nielsen: 360 has most ‘active users’ in 2009, Wii has fewest originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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