Geez, are we even talking about that prediction?? I mean, it's Patcher...

 and its quite sad hes better then the rest of them, especially the forum people.

 4/5 pages of whining and crying about 80GB PS3 bundle being $599, wtf is sony doing not giving people the option to only buy hardware.   Quite sad the Patcher is the one with the most common sense.

He didn't necessarily say all the 60 gb models will be sold out this year, early 2008 could be anywhere in the first 4 months.

Another wonderfully set up thread by Blue3. Though in all seriousness didn't the analysts also say the PS3 would be a smash hit?

Here's some more interesting comments from Pachter:

http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=122468

In the spirit of "who won E3" from year's past, GamePro speaks with respected industry analyst Michael Pachter on which of the big three console makers had the best showing this year.

"I'd have to say that Nintendo won," Pachter said in regards to the most exiting or disruptive conference this year. "They had new hardware and decent software introductions."

But Pachter didn't think that way until news broke on Friday that the new, cheaper PS3s would soon be discontinued. "Sony had seized the show until the 'discontinued' 60Gb issue arose, and that hurt them by confusing their price cut."

"Microsoft had decent software to show, but no price cut," he added suggesting the much rumored price drop would have been a good thing for Xbox 360 being that its sales have gradually declined in recent months according to NPD.

"It wasn't a very impressive show overall, so it's not like anyone was a 'loser,'" he maintained.

On the topic of how next year's E3 could be improved, Pachter noted that he liked the intimacy and accessiblity of game demonstrations, but missed the grandeur of last year's showing. "I think that the spectacle creates a vibe in and of itself, and it makes the overall show much more fun," he said. "This show was not fun at all."

The analyst concluded that a show about half the size of last year's 60,000 attendees would be ideal when compared to just 5,000 this year, and that he'd like to see the expo earlier in the year as opposed to July.

Die Pachter, die

So this guy just got paid to say today what we've all been saying for days for free?

 Isn't life great, lol

--

Anyway, does anybody know how many shipped PS3's there are in North America? I think I've seen a ~5.8 million shipped, but I don't recall if that's shipped worldwide or not. 

 Never say something can't or won't happen.  I think it's possible, but it's the combination of the 60gb being 499 now and a slew of new games that excite many gamers that are coming out in the next couple months.