Sony probably has better days ahead, yes, but denying that these are grim times for the company, isn't being realistic. The 360 is getting rather good news everyday on these forums, and I can't think of anything particularly good for Sony that's happened since the LBP review scores.
Trust me, I keep track of these things. Sony fans on message boards have less and less ammo than they use to, when combating the trolls.
Sony was in a much better position before E3. After the Megaton, Microsoft initiated its plan, and Sony just didn't do anything. They must've known a time like this would come. They just plan on pulling out of it next year. The Sony forum goer has hits like these to deal with:
1. Before E3, everybody assumed Sony would take 2nd place this gen, now it's questionable.
2. Resistance 2, Sony's biggest holiday game, received relatively middling reviews compared to Microsoft's big holiday game, and generally poor sales.
3. LBP, Sony's best holiday game, didn't sell nearly as well as expected.
4. Sony has been being beaten in console sales for a while, worldwide.
5. Nintendo dominates everything.
6. Microsoft has been selling quite well, even in Japan.
7. Microsoft's software has sold amazingly, this holiday season, and their hardware is also doing well. Everyone expected the 360 to sell less this holiday, and for Sony to gain most of its ground during this time, but after the price cut, who knows.
8. Sony drops support of 3rd parties to concentrate on 1st party games.
9. Sony refuses to cut the price of its very expensive console.
10. Final Fantasy XIII, Tekken, and most other exclusive 3rd party games are going, or will be going multiplat, from Sony's own mouth.
Not to mention the vast moneyhatting for DLC and special treatment, the multiplat differences either being slighly in favor of the PS3, or vastly in favor of the 360, and the utter lack of any big or good news, at all, for a long time.
Dark times, but they will get better, I'm sure. I wouldn't say that if I didn't believe it.
I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.
NO NO, NO NO NO.
