When will PS3 lose its momentum?!

[Soulxxx]

shams said: It has to build momentum first. I'll define this as "growing" monthly sales (per territory) of both software and hardware. It has failed to do this in the US, and also in Japan(BIG BOLD!). We won't know about Europe for 1 or 2 months. Then.. once it builds sales, it has to "outsell" one of the other consoles. Easily doing this in Japan (360), but the difference (at the moment) is being made up in the US. So it comes down to Europe. Of course PS3 sales can pick up in the US (or 360 could pick up in Japan). Sony has one serious and obvious problem - public perception. Due to the early release, lots of software, and amazing performance (for its time) - the PS2 ruled all. This does NOT apply to the PS3, and I don't think will ever apply to the PS3 - the Wii has this generation by the balls. ... Again - its just like the PSP vrs DS - the PSP in its own right is doing ok - hardware, software, etc. The DS is killing it (and the gap widening) and the public KNOWS THIS. Sony's challenge is to ensure the SAME thing doesn't happen (or worse) with the PS3. They could get good/excellent sales - but if the Wii outsells it 2-1 for the entire generation (quite possible), the perception is that Sony will have "lost". (anyone notice how the global sales ratio of DS v PSP, Wii v PS3 are virtually identical? Will see how this progresses over time... And to make matters WORSE, the PS3 has already had the release of more "expected" killer app titles that the Wii to date - all the Wii has is a port of a GC Zelda game).

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