@Bodhesatva
lol good counter attack :P
but I don't see MS going out of the race... why ??? hmm because they pursue a higher purpose/target (no no i'm not being a MS prophet) the final objective is not console or hardware... it's getting all the MS software and what comes with it in your living room and your everyday life.... Bill gates 1 or 2 years ago was saying the future is the cell phone.... I think XB is just a way to touch the teenagers and young adults of that generation... to move on to a real multimedia platform and suite of hardware and software in the very long run.... So yeah they might get out of the console race... they won't get out of your living room lol
@KBG29
take it any way you want... it still highly improbable that it will happen in 2008.... even if XB didn't sell a single unit from christmas 2007 to christmas 2008.... it still probably won't happen.... the number of sale required is simply too high... and I'm sorry but your GT number is biased.... you have to take in account the number of console in circulation GT (the 3 one, the most successful one) sold roughly to 8% of the PS2 owners ... when halo 2 roughly sold to 32% of XB owners.... so yeah it sold more units over a much larger market.... bottom line it doesn't tell us anything really for now... especially not which of the two game will push more units....
GTA could be surprise... even if it's PS game in the mind of the consumer.. right bundling with the right advertising campain could turn that into an MS advantage especially since the new date they have plenty of time to install awareness on the exclusive content, drop the price etc... and don't have other big name like halo and new big budget IP's in the middle of the fight.... I think the report of the game if well handled could be in MS advantage...
now you have MGS left has a big gun, and FF if that last one is coming in 2008... it still poor IMO to hope closing a 6+ milion gap on MS.... especially since MS is far to have drought in 2008.... in just what we know they have already a good load of good games coming up and probably a lot of surprises to come.....
no the fate of PS3 on the short and mid run is this holiday season, they have to convince the public to buy now.... if they fail to do that I don't see them coming back until end 2009/ 2010, if they ever come back after such a failure...
but hey we can take bets on 2008 :) if you want
