PlayStation 2 Sales Double Following Price Cut

Thanks to GamesIndustry.biz for its article discussing significant PlayStation 2 sales increases following the price cut to $149 last month. The piece quantifies: "Data released this week by Sony Computer Entertainment America shows that the console's sales rose by some 216 per cent in the week immediately following the price cut, with an increase of 141 per cent over the full period since the cut", and this means: "The increase in sales will have propelled the PlayStation 2 well past its console rivals, after Sony's platform slipped behind the Xbox in monthly sales for the first time since the launch of the Microsoft console." It's also explained: "The increased sales noted since the price cut have actually pushed year on year sales of the PS2 upwards, with 26 per cent growth on the same period last year - and should hopefully help to slow the overall decline in hardware sales which has hit the USA so far this year."

Comments

Re:April of this year?

[The Briguy]

I believe they are referring to the Xbox price cut from 179 to 149, which was in April.

Re:Interesting.

[bigman2003]

I was in the military (US) stationed in Germany.

We didn't use pennies on post. It was very convenient.

They just priced things normally, and the only time it mattered was with your final total at checkout.

They just rounded the total. So if your total was $15.48, you just paid $15.50. $15.46, and you paid $15.45.

So, there were no pennies really in circulation there. But for some strange reason, the US mint (whoever is in charge of money supply) moved a crapload of Susan B. Anthony dollars, and $2 bills over there.

I *always* had $2 bills in my pocket. And usually some Susan B.'s too.

But I was always jealous of the German 5 DM coin. Now THAT was useful. We should have a $5 coin.

And dump the frickin' pennies.