It goes to show how crap sales have been generally this year really.
What will be interesting is how the Nintendo scenario works out and if it will re-stabalise things.
What is also interesting is that this week in US the ps3 beat the 360 by just 30k. In say a months time or less it could possibly go back to 360 ahead of PS3. If that happens personally i think it means game over for PS3 in US. The gap is already massive but at that price point you would expect it to dominate sales there. Blu-Ray/films are more of an american thing.
The way i see it is that ODST could potentially re-rock the boat for a week or two but then the PS3 will remain in front of the 360 for the remaining part of the year.
Then next year i imagine once again when both consoles have reached saturation points the sales will again generally be low meaning that whoever then cuts price will recapture the others lead.
Sadly for the PS3 i cannot see another price cut for a long long time. 18 months or so. So in a way this price cut for me is the final roll of the dice for the PS3. If the 360 cuts again in UK it could be just at £99. That will sell by the truck loads. PS3 would not be able to answer that and that in my view is the difference. Microsoft can go lower if/when they want to, and they will go lower at somepoint. But it wont be this year, probably september next year. So that gives Sony a year to claw back the lead the 360 has and if it reaches as i said back to roughly the same sales in just a few months then that really will be that.
