"Sony risks falling out of console battle"

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washimul said: shams said: 5) BLUE_RAY is pounding HD_DVD camp all over. BLUE-RAY has major support from most of the big companies. ALready AUSTRALIAn stores have stopped selling HD_DVD drive.

PSP World Aug 31, 2005 "At the Entertainment Media Expo in Hollywood, Sony executives touted the success of their UMD format. The company said it has already sold 9 million games on UMD and 8.2 million movies. Sony is currently producing 200,000 UMDs a day and future capacity is expected to be 500,000 per day. Sony expects videos to account for more than 60 percent of all UMD sales in the a few years, with an expected 130 million UMDs being sold in 2008." http://www.pspworld.com/sony-psp/umd-movies/umd-sales-strong-sony-to-boost-production-001384.php UMD seemed to be selling amazingly well on the PSP for the first few months after it launched ... Next Generation Thursday, 30 March 2006 "Reuters reports Hollywood sources saying that Wal-Mart is pulling out of UMD. The reports adds that UMD sections at retail are shrinking fast." "One unnamed president of a major studio is quoted as saying, 'No one's watching movies on PSP. It's a game player, period.'" http://www.vgcharts.org/forum/reply.php?thread=414&quote=4160 It took less than a year for everyone to go from praising how successful the UMD format was to it being pulled from the shelves of most stores.

washimul said: 6) ps3 is projected to dominate Europe and US come MARCH . With GUNDAM MUSOU releasing on MARCH 1st you would ofcourse expect the hardware sales double for some weeks atleast.

Projected? By who? The PS3 will (probably) be the best selling platform in Europe in the month of March because it is just launching there; it will not be as large of a margin as you (probably) anticipate being that the PS3 is launching late in the month and will probably only sell it's initial shipment in that time. After that expect sales paterns like are being demonstrated in North America and Japan. Remember most Europeans make far less than Americans and the PS3 is more expensive than it is in North America; much like Canada vs. the US the PS3 could potentially end up performing far worse in Europe than it has been performing in the United States.

washimul said: 7) The software sales for ps3 has improved with time and ofcourse would reach 5:1 after march no doubt.

So ... In Japan PS3 owners are (on average) going to buy 4 new games in March with the average new PS3 purchase including 5 games? Do you know how insane that sounds?