Is PS3 set to dominate console sales for the rest of the year?

[JWeinCom]

@Cooking- Dude, his point is that he doesn't want to buy a PS3 at the selling price it's at. Why or how it got to that price is pretty much irrelevant. All the guy is saying is that he doesn't want to pay the money for one, that's his point. Why are you still arguing and derailing the thread? Drop it.

@Topicathand

So far Sony's YTD for 2012 is 81.7% of the YTD for 2011. If this trend continues and Sony sold 81.7% of PS3s of the 6.8 million PS3s they sold this time of year than they did last year, they'd sell 5.5 million consoles. Personally, I think they'll sell less than that. I don't think the slim model is going to push a lot of systems, and I think that their first party lineup (apparently highlighted by PS All Stars) is weaker than it was last year. Meanwhile, the Kinect still makes the X-Box a more enticing option for families than the PS3. Not to mention that the X-Box has Halo 4 which will be more appealing to traditional gamer demographics than what Sony is offering. Too bad GOW Ascension and The Last Of Us won't be arriving yet. Bad timing on Sony's part.

The biggest factor in the equation is the Wii U. The Wii U is going to suck a lot of the gaming dollars away from Sony and Microsoft. At only 30$ more than the PS3's new lower end slim model, the same price as a 4GB Kinect bungle, with the shiny new factor, and Nintendo's brand, the Wii U should be very successful and should steal some of Sony's potential holiday sales.

When all is said and done, I think Sony is looking at about 4.5 million over the holiday season. Can the Wii U outsell this? Well, that depends if Nintendo could make 4.5 million of them. Nintendo had about 4,000,000 Wiis in 2006, although I'm not sure all of them made it into stores by the end of the year. Supposedly Nintendo held back some of their supply. I think Nintendo could make enough consoles to be the #1 selling home console of the holiday season, but it's hard to predict.