Suggesting that three months of extremely poor sales in a single region (or world wide) would kill a console is outrageous. The PS3 is performing as well as the 360 world wide, right now, and has a reasonable chance to outsell the 360 in July world wide.
Spinsters can make things look however they want by selecting favorable data. They could look at NA only, for example. Despite Sony's erosion, the PS3 is in a decent position. This is primarily because Microsoft has been consistently dropping the ball since the 360's release, and has done some very negative things to hurt themselves: stuffing the channel with bad timing, denying hardware problems -- which they continue to do -- and failing to drop price in light of faltering sales.
All we really know thus far is that the PS3 has had a very bad launch and won't sell well at $599 in the US and probably not $499 even with better games. A bat could've predicted this situation. I find the following far more surprising than the PS3's relatively failure:
- Microsoft's inability to mount a huge lead and take advantage of the situation
- Nintendo's unparalleled success
- Sony's nonchalant attitude toward their sliding market share
I hope Sony starts taking this seriously and makes an honest bid to break free this holiday season. They simply need to drop their price far more aggressively -- their unit needs to be $399 or $349 to really spur sales.
Even so, suggesting that someone likes HD quality doesn't mean they don't prefer the Wii. I bought a good 1080p set at the beginning of this year, have an HD DVR and lots of HD content that I enjoy on that set, but I don't yet have a PS3 or 360 because very little on either platform appeal to me now. My lady wants Viva Pinata, but one title isn't sufficiently motivating since we could put that $500 toward a camera lens which we would enjoy a lot more than viva pinata.
So my HD purchase was what you'd consider "true" HD adoption, and yet I don't care that the Wii outputs in 480p and still love to play games on it.
