And here are facts:
The X360 is at the same differential of the PS3 in sales from any other point. The 360 has around (give or take 200k or so), 6.5m units.
For any argument of a Sony fanboy saying MGS, DMC, FFXIII, Drakes, Lair, Heavenly Sword, or any big-budget title that will make the PS3 sell well (which I won't argue), the 360 has the same quality AAA games.
Therefore, any game you say, can be easily renounced by the 360. Both systems are dead even in terms of games.
So your going to have to find a reason that consumers are going to randomly buy 6.5m more PS3s than 360s over a decent timeframe.
Also, it's a near mathmatical impossiblility, that at ANY point in 2007, that the PS3 will ever cut their 6.5m deficit by any major number by the end of the year.
If anything, as numbers are showing, the 360 is leading, and will well into 2008, until, at a minimum, FFXIII launches and attempts to revive a Playstation brand in Japan.
Until that point, sometime in mid-2008, your not going to see any sort of major sales.
I'm going to paint a bleak picture for you: Christmas 2007 won't go well for Sony. Trends are showing that the PS3 is continuing to slide Dreamcast and GC style that are going to severly inhibit major sales of the PS3 globally against a much more fit Wii and 360. The #1, and only real reason is price.
IF Sony doesn't drop the price, it's very unlikely that consumers will just suddenly buy 3-4m PS3s globally in November and December, when the 360 will get a price cut, and the Wii will maintain it's brisk sales.
In all reality, the 360 could beat the PS3 2:1 globally this holiday.
From there, where do fanboys think the PS3 can recover from such a low position rapidly? I'm not saying it's impossible, and most likely will happen. But to assume that Folk Soul, NGS, Uncharted, KZ, MGS, DMC4, or any title (except maybe FFXIII) is going to revive the Playstation 3, and exalt it to heaven is just as idiotic as the X360 fanboys assuming that Blue Dragon was going to make the X360 viable competition in Japan against everyone, and give it consistant sales.
Just like Gundam Mousou, any game that comes out will help it's platform, but not in a major way. It's difficult for a GAMER to justify an insane $600 when the Neo Geo was out, and the same for the Playstation 3.
You can't just always say "oh, the 2nd half of 2007, ect will trend better, and it'll revive the system". Don't get me wrong, it'll do better. But even if it does 100% better (which is very unlikely), that STILL equals sales of 100,000 a week! Do you think those numbers, although better, are meaningful against a 360 that ALREADY sells near 100k a week NOW with the same quality of titles coming out in Q3 and 4?
A good example is the 360 in 2006: it trended as being strong in 2006 Q1, and started slowly declining in Q2 and mid Q3. Even when the supposed major titles came, in N3, Saints Row, Splinter Cell, Dead Rising, million-seller Madden 07, and the other major titles came, hardware didn't really do any better.
It was November, when retailers started offering $50 and $100 discounts on the system, that sales started majorly picking up, and sold very well. If Sony cannot match what MS did last year (with a price drop, or atleast some incenives), I fail to see where in the world a much more expensive system would trend better than a much-cheaper system.
Also, saying Home will sell systems makes as much sence as a content upgrade for Oblivion will move hardware: It's idiocy at it's finest. No matter how popular it is, a virtual achivement area doesn't sell systems. Gamerscore was, and is still huge on the 360, and hundreds of sites are dedicated to tracking and informing people of gamerscore. Did gamerscore sell ANY 360s? No. It made for people renting quite a few games from Blockbuster, but that was the length of MS's marketing genious. When your trying to copy something like gamerscore/achivements, or Wii Waggle with the Sixaxis, any sort of advantage the predicessor had still remains, and your going to find that your thing only allows you to survive, not strive.
I'm not trying to speak gloom and doom, but the reason everyone is so anti-PS3 sales is this: Sales for the PS3 suck. There is no way to extrapolate that the biggest console in history has only sold 3.5 or 3.6 million units well into it's first year.
When you try to justify sales using price, or any other reason, you are proving the system doesn't sell, because any and every thing is now a reason it won't sell. The only time that price justifies discussion about sales is IF and WHEN the price is lowered, but not before.
Give it up kids, leave your PS3 uber-sales behind, and come back in 2009 when it might have dug itself somewhat out of the hole it's in. Until then, you may play whatever games keep you company on that $600 behemoth you own.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
