Will PS3 eventually pass 360?

[Diomedes1976]

Well I do know that people in japan and Europe wont buy the X360 it doesnt matter the price .The Xbox was at some moment at 129 euros and the Cube at 99 both with good lineups and exclusives as Resident Evil 4 and Halo 2 with the PS2 at 199 and the PS2 still kicked the crap out of them sistematically .

I do know a lot of people that have bought the Wii for marketing and hype alone ,they laughed a lot in parties with friends with Wii Sports ...and since then the Wii is collecting dust in their homes.Still ,it can keep selling very strong to casual gamers and Nintendo fans who want to play the new Mario game.But ,people are waiting for the PS3 to drop its price.In fact many are already buying it with the Starter Pack ,and once the machine gets anywhere near 300 or 350 euros it wont sell 65K as some suggest but 120K weekly as the PS2 did .Europe was the biggest PS2 market with more than 45 million units sold ,the brand name of Sony here is nearly intact because the FUD against it is only present in very minoritary videogames webpages.General opinion here is that the PS1 and PS2 were great machines that everybody had and that have the better games and that Xbox is just a second best or third best option ,in fact many people I have heard them saying that Sony really knows to build consoles and that MS has a lot to learn during many ages if they wanna be anywhere close .

What some people here in these boards fail to understand is that the 360 isnt even a name in most peoples minds here .Most people dont know what the 360 is ,its just the "playstation " for them .Others that know the machine just dislike it for being a MS product and look at it as a games-PC with the same games.Even the ones that know the most about the industry ,the people that surf the web daily to know everything ,those are divided between those who already have the machine and defend it and those who simply despise it because the red ring of light ,the online fees etc .In Japan its even worse ,and although MS has improved their position there from selling 1500 consoles weekly to selling 2500-3000 units its still a absolutely obscure system there .

The PS3 will take off in those two markets sooner or later ,the 360 never .No matter what price it has.Thats why in the worlwide fight its doomed to fail even if it could keep its lead in the North American market .


All this is speaking too much ,though .The PS3 hasnt had a single christmas with full stock ,it had shortages in NA and japan and wasnt even present in Europe .I think that by march next year we will have a more clear vision on whats happening .