I think like I made a thread earlier about, Sony has a big problem with their 1st party developers. 3 first party titles, LBP - Motorstorm - Socom (Hardware bundle) hardly made a dent in the overall sales. I have LBP myself, its an awesome game and I really do wish it well but having 3 games not do well at the same time and especially one with quite as substantial a marketing effort as LBP will do no favours for the Playstation divisions bottom line.
Sony as a whole doesn't look like they are going to be in for as pleasant a Christmas as they could have hoped. With a high yen and consumer confidence dropping they can ill afford the Playstation division dragging the companies bottom line through the red ink.
What does this mean for PS3 strategy in the future? Since they probably can't afford to even consider dropping the price for another 11 months if the main company does poorly over the next couple of quarters, their strategy will likely turn into attempting to achieve a profitable third place rather than potentially going toe to toe with a profit washed Microsoft with price cuts.
I wonder what this all might mean for Home? Will they be forced to charge a subscription fee? They have to increase their revenue whereever they can, and that may be one of the places they attempt to do so.
This may be as close as the Playstation ever got to overtaking the Xbox 360...
Tease.
