Where does the 3D tv is only for the rich myth come from

Normal standalone blu-ray players are AU$129 and the 3D blu-ray is around AU$499 aus, the cheapest ps3 is also $499, so the people who will want to watch a movie in past experiences (i work in an elec store I try to sell them a ps3 as our specific store doesnt sell 3D blu-rays the larger variations of our store does) don't want a gaming system they just want a blu-ray player.

It also happened when the original blu-ray came out and they were the same price as the PS3. And 3D tv's are only around AU$2500 btw AU$ is australian dollars, so i can only assume it will be cheaper in the US.

Um judging by your numbers they both kicked arse.... but I think halo reach was released closer to Cod4 wasnt it?

360 fans will get both shooters, Cod will not beat Halo, a proper Halo game, Microsoft advertises way way too well, they saturate you in advertisement.

Activision won't do that. Why on gods name will Little Big Planet and Assassins Creed affect Halo's sales... that just doesnt make any sense.LBP is a ps3 exclusive and advertised (im not saying it is one) but advertised as a kids game. People who will want a shooter or a more mature game wont get LBP.

With all the rest of the series they are established, bar GTR the rest you wont really pick up unless you have played one of the previous. GTR in my opinion will be the biggest let down for any game since final fantasy (the current latest). That is just my opinion though as I have stated.

I say yes, without a doubt. PS3 sales are still incredibly strong, remember, it sold 300k units for NPD in June, despite a price cut from from the competition. I doubt it will beat out the 360 in sales for Q3/Q4, because I expect this to be the 360's best year and the PS3's second best year, but it's going to win a handful of weeks.

In the end though, the gap will increase in the 360's favor. The PS3 won't be playing catch up anymore until the magical $200 price cut.

this seems about where i stand well put Sorcery..

i don't think so. 

only chance of ps3 outselling 360 is if kinect fails hard. 

Yeah it probably will when GT5 launches, other than that I don't expect too many.

I think probably anywhere between 4-6 of the weeks left in the year MIGHT go to PS3.

EDIT :  double post 

and my second one failed, forgot discounted older models

Considering Halo Reach is the third iteration of the Halo series on the 360, it won't push as much console sales.  While there's quite a few that have been waiting for GT5 on PS3 and it hasn't been on the PS3 before, there's a greater chance to push hardware sales for the PS3.  While I think Kinect will do better than Move, I don't think either will push any hardware in general.

I wouldn't discount bluray that much.  It is helping PS3 sales in general(several percent IMO).  I see greater bluray adoption this coming year but there are other cheaper bluray players out there now.  Only a mild boost there for PS3.

I think PS3 will take 2-3 weeks post GT5 release but Xbox the rest of the season.

Edit: I forgot about GT5 prologue

I don't normally post here, but I figured I'd share my thoughts. 

I think Microsoft will have the rest of the year, by typically small margins. PS3 will take the holidays with GT5, LBP and DCUO launching in November, and the moves success already established by this point, followed up by heavy marketing over the holiday period. 

Halo Reach of course, being the third in the series. With ODST not selling many units. Will also - not sell 360 units, to any significant degree, anyway. 

The PS Move, will most likely perform initially worse than Kinect, but I think the Move will have more legs, and eventually push more units. However I don't think either move or Kinect will push any significant hardware figures. The PS3 may be able to reclaim Europe on the weeks around the Playstation Moves release. 

PS3 will still end up on top of the 360, for hardware units sold, this year.

When the PS3 Slim launched, the PS3 outsold the 360 week after week for almost an entire year. Now the 360 launched, and it's also doing reasonable well, not as well as the PS3 Slim, but considering the PS3 Slim was already out before the 360 Slim, it's still doing well.

So just on the popularity of the 360 Slim, I think until November 360 will hold the leads in terms of game sales. Two months after release the 360 Slim is still holding a sizable lead in sales over the PS3, and even without the Kinect and Halo, that will be enough to last until November.

Now to garentee that lead in sales, Halo, Kinect, and Fable 3 will push many consoles, and consistantly keep the sales diference between the PS3 and the 360 high. Think about it.

360S in June for North America and Japan, 360S for July everywhere else. 360S in North America in early August, and late August for everywhere else. Halo in September. Kinect standalone, bundled, and Fable 3 in October. No way PS3 can outsell the 360 until Gran Turismo 5.

Now for the week of Gran Turismo 5, I think PS3 sales will be above 360 sales. However I still think the 360 will be the more popular console this holiday, so for that strong sales period at the end of November onto December, I think 360 will be superior.

So my guess is for 1-2 weeks, the PS3 will outsell the 360 thanks to Gran Turismo 5, maybe even a third week because of LBP2, but I think 360 and PS3 games will still be roughly the same for that breif period where PS3 leads because Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, and many other BIG multiconsole games are also being released at this time. Also Kinect will push people to buy bundled 360S Arcade models .

So I give PS3 a week, mayybbbeee 2 if GT5 really sells well, but there is also a chance that Sony does not outsell the 360 ANY week this year if Kinect takes off.