Sales will bounce back - BluRay is taking off, and the PSN now has a legitimate media download service. It's just the summer slowdown, plus restocking. Also, sales needed a breather after the hugely successful MGS4 launch.
When you look closely, though, Microsoft is in deep, deep trouble. The flagship 360 got a price cut and is now $299, a hundred dollars cheaper than the cheapest PS3. Sales should have exploded past the 200K mark. They didn't.
VGChartz data shows that for all of 2008, market share for the Wii is 44.9%, PS3 22.7%, 360 17.0% and PS2 15.4%. So Sony still has nearly 40% market share despite having the most expensive console out there, while the 360 is clinging to one-sixth of the console market. Those are appalling numbers for Microsoft, which had 30% market share back in 2005.
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