Is this game over for Sony?

[KohlyKohl]

Singularity said: IMO Sony can afford to take another initial manufacturing loss, it will be made up in licensing PS3 will drop its price, Sony already hinted at it and will follow though once some of the chips+blue-ray diodes are cheaper which will most likely be around may/june. All backward compatability issues will also be resolved with upcoming firmware releases. The last 2 generations have been won by PLAYSTATION, Even Wii users will by one after the novelty wears off and amazing eye-candy and fun titles like GTA, god of war and shadow of the colossus and original IP's come out this year and the next. 115 Million+ PS2 consoles worldwide and still selling... Sony can afford to take another initial manufacturing loss, it will be made up in licensing Once Sony pictures puts its entire DVD catalog and future releases on BR, people will like the fact that "ONE BOX" can do it all instead of having to switch around inputs and remotes to watch movies and play games. Which is Sony's original intent...and it is STILL the cheapest blue ray player...and the format war was already decided by disney, panasonic, apple and a slew of other companies... So PRICE is the only deciding factor right now...and the real war is between the 360 and PS3 not Gamecube 1.5. The PS3 will outsell the Wii in a year, tops. and have outsold 360 by this time next year. Watch for christmas 07

Wow you are not biased or anything. While it is true that Sony said they were open to a price drop, they never said when. A year minimum at best, but I would say at it will be at least 1.5 years before they seriously consider it as a viable option. Yes, Blue-ray has caught up to HD DVD finally, but it is still too close to call and honestly I don't see Blu-ray pulling away anytime soon. I do however see a problem, hybrid drives that play both. How will this affect the outcome? Only time will tell. Just because the Playstation 2 has sold just over 100 million consoles, does not mean it will again. A 1/4 of the those are DVD only as far as I can tell. I have only one friend who ever bothered to buy games for his, rest just use it for DVD's and a cd player. Don't believe it? Just look at the total games sold ration for all three consoles, the PS2 should have ALOT higher numbers than it does. Of course using this argument also goes in favor of PS3 again. The question is this, do people want high definition movies? I don't know the exact answer, but look how long it is taking for people to buy HD tv's. I mean given the choice, I still see people buying SDTV's instead for the price, and cannot see the justification in HD, and why should HD movies be any different? The PS3 will keep up, but it will alway be behind the XBox360 and Nintendo Wii because of the high price, and the fact that not as many people want an all in one device like you seem to believe.