The price reduction effect of the main body, the light and dark split between PS3 and Xbox 360

On Sep 3rd (Thursday) Sony released a new PS3 whose price has been reduced to less than 30,000 yen than before, but it will be one week laterFrom Thursday, September 10, Microsoft also lowered the Xbox 360 elite to a price that cuts below 30,000 yenDid.

Although it is said that both prices have been reduced by about 10,000 yen, apparently it seems that the result is big and dark.

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This week's ranking | Media Creation

Based on the research results of Media Creation, which mainly deals with games business, Media Creation 's research results show that weeks of September 7 - September 13, 2009, which is the week including September 10 when Xbox 360 elite price cuts were made It was said that the Xbox 360 (including elite, standard, arcade) sold at 7568 was.

This is Media Seit's survey September 7 - September 13, 2009 game machine sales figures. The PS3 sales volume that is the second week after the new model was sold to 53,344 units.


This figure was revealed by a survey conducted by EnterbrainThe unit sales of 4614 units last week (August 31 - September 6, 2009)It is less than twice the number of the new model, and it is 4 days after the new model was releasedPS3 which sold 150,000 units, which is the highest everIt is a contrasting result.

For the holiday shopping season "Halo 3: ODST"Or"Forza Motorsport 3In addition to Xbox 360 exclusive software such as "Tekken 6"Or"Beyonetta"Dragon Ball Raging Blast"It is planned that major software such as PS3 and Xbox 360 will be released as a multi-title, so I am concerned about future trends in both.