Will PS3 have a successful year in 2009?

[Zlejedi]

2009 will definitly be better for PS3.
First they will continue to reduce manufacturing cost due to optimization of production process of both cell and br drives (remember if standalone drive went down in price from 400 to 150-200$ then it costs less to manufacture by Sony too).

Second they have much higher install base and those people won't stop buying ps3 games suddenly so the ratio of software sold to consoles sold will be improved meaning more cash.

Third 2009 is a year of starting problems for competitor as initial milions of x360 consoles will be running out of warranty which will mean any broken machine is highly probable to be replaced by new arcade meaning more hardware cost for microsoft without increasing real userbase. We might see impresive sales statistics becouse of it but it will hurt attach ratio. Since we will see on paper more users of x360 then there are in reality.