Game Console Season

Look at these statistics here:

During the month of April 2007, this is how these consoles fared (in Nothern America):

Nintendo DS - 471,000
Nintendo Wii - 360,000
Playstation 2 - 194,000
Playstation Portable - 183,000
Xbox 360 - 174,000
Gameboy Advance - 84,000
Playstation 3 - 82,000
GameCube - 13,000

Do you even believe your tits?! Playstation is barely trying to stay afloat in the consoles department! According to industry news, Playstation 3 is facing problems in trying to sell even 100,000 units a month!

It's quite gutsy of Nintendo to launch it's wii at a time when Sony and Microsoft are busy killing each other in the markets. Shrewd as they are, they have also underestimated their selling prowess and thus leading to a problem with supply. But who can blame them, it's better to be cautious than to have an oversupply and have stock sitting in your supply chains.

Some also say that there are just too few games to be had on the playstation. And i do believe that's what you want to do when you buy a game console - to play games. In fact, looking at the figures, you can see that the Playstation 2 (yes! 2!!) is actually outselling the Playstation 3! Now how can that even be remotely possible? Blame it on the games.

On the whole, Sony is still selling well. The PS2 and the PSP continues to be it's cash cow and it feeds a market that is already tired of an electronics market that's Microsoft everything.

And that is the problem that i foresee with the Xbox. Not the games, not the console, not the technology. The very brand of Microsoft is the deadweight that could be dragging it's sales. A quick survey: What do you think of when you think of Microsoft Games? I don't know about you, but the first thing that comes to mind is "Flight Simulator" and "Age of Empires". And i also can't get Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Windows out of my head. The word "microsoft" is just too serious to be related to anything fun. Perhaps some serious brand disassociation would do well to boost the Xbox's sales.

My buddy Rimbo pointed out another opportunity for Nintendo: "...technical prowess, combined with the low cost of development for the Wii.....will show a huge opportunity to develop games for the Wii that isn't being exploited yet by the big development houses. For the price of one triple-A title for the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3, a studio could develop 3 Wii games and because of the huge Wii installed base, anyone of them has a better chance of selling than a big-budget Xbox/Playstation offering".

Enough said.

I'm spending my money on a hoover instead.