When will PS3 lose its momentum?!

[Shane]

PS3 is easily beating the original, and the original is the second best selling system in history, well ahead of every system that launched better than it did. A strong start out of the gate may be nice, but it's no guarantee. PSP is outselling Nintendo's first portable. It may not be winning, but did anyone honestly expect it to? Sony didn't exactly rush out of the gates last time either. Definitely better than this time, but they got off to a slow start, though that was arguably more supply constrained. The reality is, though, that regardless that the $600 price tag, which is the biggest obstacle, won't be around forever, and Sony does have a lot of killer apps coming down the pike. N64 and Gamecube both had record setting launches... then laid down and died. Will Wii follow in their footsteps? Maybe. Maybe not. But assuming that it won't just on the basis of a couple months of good sales is just wrong. If I had this console war my way, I wouldn't be backing Sony. The inclusion of Blu-Ray was arrogant and careless. I do believe Microsoft has a better vision for the future of the industry (Nintendo's in its own little world, but that's okay because that's what we've come to expect from them over the years). But just because I think that Sony deserves to pay for that doesn't mean they will. Like it or not, they will get away with it. Anyone who thinks Wii will win the war is kidding themselves only. If Nintendo can get the system up to N64 levels while not losing, or perhaps even gaining, in terms of third party support, they're going to consider that very successful. The concept that we've got our third 100 million seller on our hands is laughable. The point isn't Zelda or Mario specifically... it's Nintendo's first party games. Nintendo needs more than just that. They don't have very much, and to make matters worse, most of their second parties bailed on them within the past 5 years. Rare, Left Field, Factor 5, and Silicon Knights all jumped ship to work for the enemy. The way I view the hardware design is that it's the biggest blessing and the biggest curse. It's a first party decision made for first party reasons of saving a buck, but I don't imagine developers embracing it. Sony is probably the most underestimated first party company in the industry, but their publishing history speaks for itself.