Which you know... is irrelevent.  It has nothing to do with "ruining PS3 sales threads" and having everything to do with "posting factual information."

True, but not really.  Even adjusting for inflation PS3 cost way more at launch.  Let me see if i can find the chart and edit it in.

Can't get a good picture of it and upload it but here's the article.

http://curmudgeongamer.com/2006/05/history-of-console-prices-or-500-aint.html

PS1 was only about 350 compaired to the PS3's price. 500-600.

Kasz ended this thread a while back. It's fun to see the delusional keep ignoring him though. The original post ignores the fact that the PS1 would have been out for 4 fiscal years in Japan, 3 fiscal years in North America and Europe. The PS3 has been out for 4 fiscal years in Japan and North American, and 3.5 fiscal years in Europe. In this flawed comparison the PS3 has been on the market for 1 year longer than the PS1 in North America and six months longer in Europe. Thread logic = Fail.

sigh just wait till the end of this year, i expect more boost's from GOW III and FF XIII, not to mention the huge boost PS3 will get when GT5 comes out, this year will be the best year the PS3 would have had sales wise, PS3 sales are growing, not losing pace.

Not to mention Sony was the new kid on the block, and had to build up a fanbase from scratch. The PS3 is building off of a well over 100mil fanbase for each console. In that regard it is an utter failure.

Wow, this thread has so much fail in it. Sony supporters are kind of in denial to be actually talking such nonsense.

Or is it that only Sony supporters don't know how to research data properly?

Is this based on current sales compared to last year? Because any lead build up now quickly diminishes once September starts and there is no slim release nor a $100 price cut to raise sales like last year (obviously assuming Sony isn’t willing to lose a lot of money on selling PS3s). Btw, I don't say you can't be right, I just think it is way to soon to make a meaningful prediction at the moment.

Which you know... won't change the facts that the PS3 isn't selling like the PS1.

The PS3 could have a miracle and start selling like the PS2 and i'd still be right.

I'd also be happy the PS3 would be selling like the PS2 because.

A) I like the PS3... I own one.

B) I like videogames, the more consoles sold the better... I wouldn't care if it was virtual boy sales... even though I hate that headache inducing bastard.

The fact of the matter is though... I'm not going to play pretend when I know there is an erronious conclusion being drawn.   The facts are the facts and there are few things that annoy me more then misrepresented statistics.  Probably because of my statistical and scientific background in college.

That and we don't really need repeats of the "PS3 is selling like PS2!" threads we had a year or two ago... they were just annoying.  You need to alight launched by region to make any kind of meaningfull analysis.

it will easily do that amount with FF XIII, GOW III, and GT5 coming, of course that is just a point of view.

Iif x360 gets a price cut, it may be hard for ps3 to do that, to be honest that is the only thing that could hurt the ps3 at the moment, but they have tried that during christmas, and ps3 still came out on top, but like you said most of that was due to the ps3 slim

fair enough, and in all due honesty i don't question your point's of view, i just don't like when people get overly nagative about the ps3, in my view it will reach 100m+, eventually.

we all need to stop this negativity towards all consoles in my own view no console is doomed, ps3 will surprise everyone, and wii will really astonish us all, it is destined to break the ps2 record at this rate.