I think a lot of people are overstating the negatives of Sony's launch. They are probably close to 2 million in sales by now, which is amazing considering the initial launch price, and terrible launch games. Resistance was made great by the terrible alternatives, a game like that would have been lost among the XBOX 360's superior shooters. I guarantee that all 3 consoles experience price cuts in May or June. The PS3 will ultimately be viewed as a failure becuase of the tremendous market share loss, but it will be the highest selling console because in the end it is the console most people want. People will wait for the price to be in their range. As a side note I do not think anyone on these boards realize how ignorant the average person is to game development. You will hear people say things like "when is Sony gonna gonna come out with Metal Gear Solid?" Even if the PS3 exclusive titles go multiplatform, people will buy the PS3 in the hopes of playing sequals to their favorite ps2 games. I know this first hand from talking to my casual gaming friends, and also from my N64 days when I thought "when is Nintendo gonna come out with Mega Man?" I hitched my wagon to Gamecube last generation so I have my doubts that 3rd party developers will actually support the console for more than 2 years. I personally will buy a 360 after the previously discussed price cut. I hope Too Human can surpass the superb Eternal Darkness. PS3 67 million Wii 54 million Xbox 360 52 million

That is the truth, however it makes a HUGE difference if you use the RCA cables that came with it, or HDMI. it looks REALLY bad with HDMI. it has no 'blurring' effects. coming in the march firmware, their supposed to disable a chip in PS3's (right now) and run the emulator on the CELL. but until then, I think they have a halfass emulator that isnt meant to be perfect. It works. I think that's all they want it to do. As for a perfect emulator at launch... we wouldn't be graced with having the black monolith of doom! end of 2007 Wii 15million 360 15million PS3 12million end of 2008 Wii 27million 360 23million PS3 22million End of 2009 Wii 35million 360 26million PS3 35million At 2010... Wii, 40million 360, 30million PS3, 50 At 2012... Wii, 44million 720 8million Ps3 80million -Kwaad EDIT: in refrence to everyone's remarks about resistance... it has it's shortcommings. like a short dev time. it shows through the game. not enough physics... no doors? no interactive objects... that stuff takes ALOT of time to put in a game. and they didnt have that. other than those things. it is a SUPERB FPS, as it in unique. Not enough of those. we have our COD/wargames 1hit your dead. Then we have our Quake3 games... the person who can aim the railgun at your head wins. And then we have Halo... Halo is my favorite style FPS. however I hated Halo2. Dont have a 360. so dont care about Halo3. Resistance is one of my favorite FPS in a few years, besides maybe PREY.(pc)

Why is the PS3 emulating PS2 software, when it has the Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer built in?

Hey my post caught legs Good, the game is afoot!

I couldnt really answer that. However, those chips cost sony money, and the CELL, can emulate it. (it has more than enough power) and from what I have read, those chips are in the PS3 to run PS1&2 games. As their emulator does not work yet. I've read at a few places... quote me not, as I couldnt say where I saw it, but I'm fairly sure that I read somewhere that the PS3 will emulate the PS1 & 2, and remove that chip. (the chip is in there because the emulator was not finished) Also, if it was what you say, I would think it would look more like a PS2. I hooked my PS2 up to my 40inch Samsung, and it looked 10x better than my PS3 emulating PS2. I havent tried PS1. No idea why that happens. but they are sposed to fix the emulator in their firmware update. -Kwaad

Hey dudes and dudets, you're supposed to be jotting down predictions not disscussing other stuff. Come on $100 not motivation enough for you?

Yulegoat said: By the end of 2010: Wii - 135 m PS3 - 40 m 360 - 27 m

Hi'yall, I'm back. As some of you might remember, I made that prediction back in 2006 and I think I deserve some credit here.

360: not counting replacements due to RRODs, I think my estimate was quite good.

PS3: Spot-on?

Wii: There has not been an official price drop at least here in Europe, so I don't think it's unrealistic to assume that Wii has the potential to sell tens of millions of units worldwide this year. The question is how much will the price drop be and when will it take place.

I think this thread deserves to be made 'sticky'.

Chubear said: PlayStation - 95 Million Wii - 35 Milion 360 - 32 Million If I'm still alive then, I'll be giving out $100 to the best estimate given. But I think I got it right though

That's full of fail you predict wii will finish at 35 Million but's it's already past 70 Million, end of 2012 will will be at least 115 Million.

Oh fuck fuck sake, I notied this thread was made back in 2006! Anyway I can see you're dead wrong on your Wi predicition lol.