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Hyruken on 12 November 2008
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Skeeuk said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:

You would have to be an idiot to think that the Ps3 would pass the 360 in 2008. You would have to believe that the Ps3 would outsell the 360 by over 7M. That's 134K a week.

As no rational person would believe the 360 would sell less than a 9-10M this year, it would mean he would expect the Ps3 to sell a ~ 17M this year, which is what some people expected the Wii to sell (the ones who didn't expect the Wii to get increased production from 1.4M/month).

 

I am also kinda offended that you use the word "we" so much, to describe Ps3 owners. The people who expected what you say are in minority on the site, and the ones who didn't expect it surely won't like being piled in with the morons.

 

I agree that the Ps3 has failed this generation, and that the 360 has done some superb things. Still, we all know this, and it isn't a new thing that came in 2008. In fact, 2008 made the Ps3's future look far less crappy in terms of unit sales.

how is ps3 future looked crappy because of 2008, 2008 has been a great year for sales and games. ps3 has had brilliant games this year so i dont know what ur talking about.

only reason why 360 sales have bumped last 2 months is because they had no choice to cut thier price, even at a much lower price anyway in the 1st place ps3 was selling more weekly sometimes 50k more.

imo at the current price point the ps3 is its doing very well, had 360 been the same price point as ps3 is now,  i doubt it vry much that 360 would sell at all.

i belive ps3 will get through nicly with its price point during the xmas period, and surely when 2009 price cuts happen on ps3 the sales will highly rocket.

 

Not entirely true is it. If you look at the numbers you see that it is actually the PS3 that has dropped the most. After MGS4 the 360 and PS3 were running pretty much neck and neck sales wise. MS could of stayed at the same price and stayed competative. Look at the sales from R2 and LBP. This years 2 giant PS3 games and they had no effect on sales. In fact this week last year sold more units then the PS3 this year. Where as MS knew they had a very strong holiday line up coming and by lowering the price will counter act the PS3 sales. This will be the last holiday the consoles get the big sales unit wise. MS played it smart. Next year the PS3 has nothing at all that will stimulate sales. People will say GT5 has the potential to but it has a lot of competition from games such as Forza 3 etc...

So really it is about strategy and right now Sony has been out played. Sony has no choice but to do a price drop or the numbers will keep on fading. Having the most expensive console for the 3rd holiday in a row will hurt Sony a lot.