fooflexible on 17 May 2007
What hasn't been addressed enough here, is not the console ps3 sales, it's their software sales. Granted everyones first reaction is that, "Wait till the good stuff get here!" but no one who's buying the system is a gamer, gamers aren't buying the ps3. Heck only one game per 3 consoles is being sold. And thats the ratio if you don't count the existing 900,000+ userbase, if you add them only 1 game is being bought with a system per every 4 or 5 systems sold. Even if you think the ps3 is a trojan horse that will later convert its userbase to sales, I don't see how that'll happen, if you don't want to buy a single game when you first get the most state of the art video game system, you most likely won't want to get a game at all. That means most of the ps3 sales are blu-ray movie player sales. Their attach rate is falling through the floor. Now publishers have to say to themselves, it's not selling well, and most of what's selling isn't for games. And what's going to kill Sony is they lose money on the system sales, and make it on software, what good is a system that sells, when no one is buying the games? And don't tell it's good enough to just push blu-ray movies, if that were true why bother investing billions in the gaming industry, and just give out cheap blu-ray players from the start. The attach ratio right now is a huge siren going off. Even the X360 is selling more games, and thats more important to publishers then a userbase, if they don't believe the userbase is here to buy games.
