What place will the ps3 end up in at the end of this Gen?

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ps3_jrpg_gamer said:

Hyruken said:

damkira said:

I'm pretty sure it will eventually pull off second, the momentum is clearly with it... but you never know for sure. Xbox 360 seems to have already exhausted all of its options...

 

How so?

your whole text is filled with fanboysim and MS will be the one to be forced to sell at a very low price with no profit

Wait so MS will be forced to sell at a very low price with no profit. I guess that is different then Sony (currently) selling at a high price at a loss.

 

To add to other threads going on.

GOWIII will not be a system seller (System sellers on all consoles are really done now with the console penetrations so high) and will sell nicely, but not blockbuster status.  Previous iterations didnt and dont give me that was because of piracy. There were 100+ million PS2s out when the GOW games released. Dont tell me all 100+ million were people that were pirating games.  Not to mention it is a genre that even when it has a blockbuster the sales are good not great.

Halo vs GT.  We dont know which is the bigger franchise now.  Past gen GT3 was bigger. I tend to think that Halo has overtaken GT.  GT did not have direct competion until Forza 1.  This gen the racing genre has caught up to GT in looks and offers people diferent options on racers and this will dilute GT sales.  GT wont push hardware much.

MS has plenty of room to drop price.  The people that dispute that only think about the Arcade.  Well Arcade can drop to $129 or $149 and the HDD sku can drop to $200.  PS2 took less time to drop to $149 and that worked pretty well for Sony.  So Arcade at $149 for the 360's sixth year is an easy thing for MS to do.