Japanese store stops selling PS3s due to poor sales

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rocketpig said:

PinkPoop said:

rocketpig said:

Wow, okay. I love baseless predictions with absolutely no grounding in reality.

A mediocre upcoming lineup, stagnating sales, and $200 pricier than the competition. Yep, Sony has the world by the balls right now.

"Medicore upcoming lineup" is opinion.

"Stagnating sales" doesn't consider the PS3 in context. The implication is a rejection of the PS3, when reality it's just a "wait and see" for the PS3 due to no summer games. Other consoles, except for the Wii, are suffering this same thing.

 "$200 pricer than the competition" is a fact, but only if you fail to consider the Blu-ray player. The X360 only competes feature by feature with the PS3 when you include the HD DVD add-on, which makes it the same price.

 You didn't make a prediction, but what you said was baseless and had no grounding in reality. Practice what you preach, mod.

Mediocre lineup is an opinion. An opinion shared by most of the gaming world.

I don't care if people are taking a "wait and see" attitude. PS3 sales are stagnating. That's a fact.

I don't remember MS forcing me to buy anything other than the 360. I don't even want a Blu-Ray player right now. Therefore, the PS3 is $200 extra. $300 if you want to argue the Core system (I won't). Adding in peripherals to make your price point look better is just silly.

So, how was my argument baseless again?

"An opinion shared by most of the gaming world." What? That's impossible to defend from any standpoint. You can't possibly speak about a "majority" without looking like a total fool. You can't defend that position, so you are unable to use it.

"PS3 stales are stagnating. That's a fact." Well, depends on how you look at "facts." It's a fact that there aren't many games on the PS3. It's a fact that we are in the summer period where gaming typically "stagnates." Your inference is that the PS3 is in trouble because summer months, without software, it isn't selling a million consoles. My correction on that inference is that the PS3 is only in trouble if it doesn't sell during holiday season, with software. It's not that hard to understand.

The "logic" on your last paragraph is simply hilarious. The PS3 isn't *just* a games machine. It has a blu ray player. Blu-ray is competing with HD DVD. Its competition is not just the X360, but HD DVD as well. You say you just care about a gaming machine, your opinion that has nothing to do with the FACT that the X360 without HD DVD only competes with ONE PART of the PS3. PS3's "total" competition is priced the same as the PS3, $600.

Baseless nonsense, and from a moderator. Disgusting.