Can it actually be that bad?

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Dodece said:

I was doing a little research for a thread today. Asking myself how adverse the effect of the price cut rumor would be on sales early next year. So I went to the charts to see what the PS3 averaged weekly globally in January, February, and March of this year. At first I thought I had made a gross error, but I kept plugging in weeks, and found that it is indeed true the PS3 is performing par for weeks in those months right now in the middle of the holiday season. I knew the PS3 was doing badly, but I doubt it really sank in up until that point. I doubt it has sunk in for many posters on these forums.

So I followed the logical step, and decided to see how much lower the sales were for both the 360 and PS3 from the previous holiday season. Specifically a week that alligns with the current one. I find the sales have decreased to forty or thirty percent of this week. So now I am struck with a real question what happens if last years precedent draws a parallel to sales in the coming year. Could the PS3 see sales of a third to a half of current sales, and what does that mean for the console.

Console weekly 115,000/175,000

Do not derail this thread with trolling. I want real discussion not fanboy bullshit. You and your gut can go speak to eachother in a corner. I am seriously interested in seeing real data interpretation, and finding out what other posters might think this would mean.

The PS3 is still the most expensive console, and with the recession and 750,000+ jobs being lost in the last 3 months with people saying thats just the tip of the iceberg, people are hesitant to dump money on a 500 dollar console. Top that off with the fact that Sony has consistantly made bad desicsion after bad desicion and you have a perfect storm of the console not selling well.

Before September I was convinced the PS3 would outsell the 360 this holiday season, after September thats done, the PS3 will stay a distant 3rd this gen unless this recession miracously ends before the Gen is over or unless Sony gets their head out of their collective ass and slashes the PS3's price.