Grey Markets Compared - PS3 vs. Wii

[wraggster]

via /.

Kotaku has a follow-up feature to their earlier look at the declining PS3 market on EBay. Post author Michael Fahey has now gone back and looked at Ebay sales, comparing the PS3 and the Wii. Unlike the sharp dips and spikes the PS3 market has suffered, the price seems to be fairly constant for the Wii console. From the article:

"Considering the small window that the PlayStation 3 auctions had to turn a truly amazing profit, prospectors would have been better off in the long run purchasing a couple of Wiis, which have maintained an average profit margin of 45-50% since preorders became available. Definitely not a windfall, but a much more financially sound investment in the long run. Unfortunately these launches weren't about being sound financially. They were about betting on the big bucks, and the majority of the PS3 prospectors out there played the tables and lost."

[Shrygue]

Sounds like Sony isn't do so well in PS3 sales against Nintendo's Wii console. Maybe they should rethink their marketing tactics.

[woods05]

I'm not sure if it is the same elsewhere, but where I live, most stores have more than one PS3 in stock. No one is buying them though.
On the other hand, Nintendo Wiis and wii accessories are still hard to find.