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Darc Requiem on 16 December 2008
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GTAIV08 said:
numonex said:

Wii by a huge margin over XBox 360 and PS3 combined. XBox 360 to out sell PS3 by around 5 million units when the console generation ends. I have a strange feeling the PS3 could stop selling before XBox 360. Last placed console tends to drop off as has happened in previous generations.

PS3 could finish second place but it will need to cut price of its consoles very soon, bring out more exclusive games that sell. But Sony risks making huge losses on PS3 by cutting prices drastically to boost sales. MS can  use price as a weapon to counter PS3 price cuts due to XBox 360 having been on the market much longer and costing a lot less than PS3 to manufacturer.

Second place for Sony could result in financial disaster in its gaming division sector. PS3 is making huge losses for Sony in gaming division. Sony does not have as deep pocket as Nintendo and Microsoft to be able to afford losses.

 

playstation has just too big a fanbase, so ps3 will not stop selling until sony stops it. people will just keep buying it like with ps2 even after 9 years and only sony know how to pull that off and people shouldnt question it either because they have already proved it and done it twice. just look at ps3, people are willing to pay $399 and £300 for the damn thing! so there must be heavy demand there.

That's the same argument people have been making since the beginning. Because the PS2 was popular the PS3 will be. It doesnt' work. It didn't work for Atari when the NES took off and it didn't work Nintendo when the PS1 took off.  If this were 2006, I could understand that type of thought process but its almost 2009. The Wii and PS3 were launched in the same time frame and the PS3 has been obliterated. The PS3 has fallen farther behind 360 than it was at launch with a no price cut in sight. The PS3 has an outside shot of catching the 360 but it has no shot of catching the Wii.