A new trend in the others.

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shams said:
I expect the 360 to outsell the PS3 - maybe by 20% (maybe more) - in 'Others' over the next months.

The PS3 has already had its price cut - the 360 price cut is just starting to filter through. Combine this with the massive marketing campaign MS will roll out for Halo 3 (and backup titles), and it should easily win.

But I think the PS3 will do pretty well as well - hence only a 20% difference.

(the Wii should still win - but this will depend SOLELY on hardware shipment figures - not released software. If Ninty decide to ship more units to the US/Japan than Europe - I would understand...).

As this is Europe we're talking about, then the PS3 has not had it's price cut, just been upgraded to a starter pack, so there may well be a price cut before or around xmas.

My personaly opinion is that I agree with mitsuhide, that Microsoft has little loyalty from it's consumers, and that Sony/Playstation will still be well thought of. I also think that Nintendos image has been vastly improved since the era of the GC, when people only viewed it as a bit of a joke (the colour scheme didn't exactly help, excluding GBA of course). I think that by next generation that Sony and Nintendo will be on equal footing.

But on topic, I think that hardware problems have seriously damaged the 360s chances, especially the fact the customer support is so crap. Mate of mine for RRoD, and it took him like 2 months to get it back, which is ridiculous, and I know there anre many similar stories aswell. Frankly, I think people view Microsoft as a huge company that doesn't care for Europe once they've given them money. So I reckon that unless the new motherboard fixes things (are they replacing the faulty disk drive aswell?) and they imporve their awful customer support that the PS3 will beat it continuously in monthly sales by the end of next year.