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Maybe if Microsoft or Nintendo made the PS3 from now on it would have what it takes?

Fanboys if you ask me, the Wii and the 360 have plenty of them, but there aren't enough on the PS3 side.

just do another price cut and its 2009 all over again......

backward compatibility, put it back!!! hell just lower the price of the console and make a special PS2 compatible PS3 for an extra 50 and watch that fly off shelves and more MOVE promotion and a little more shovelware. It helps!!

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A price drop would surely increase sales for the console and it would be nice to see, but Sony is profiting from the PS3 now and it's only been a short while since they've been able to do so. I imagine a price cut will be coming around this years E3.

Heavily bundled systems. I'm not just talking a $299 PS3 with a game included, but actually coming out with special edition systems that have images of whatever game they're trying to promote (killzone, inFamous, LBP, Uncharted.) I can imagine seeing these flying off the shelves, whether they're from newcomers to the system or previous owners. Which ever way you look at it, money is being made and consoles are selling.

And last but not least, marketing. We're all very aware that Sony doesn't market their games as much as we'd like (or maybe they do, but M$ has spoiled that by dumping insane amounts of money on marketing for their products.) It would be nice to see Sony market their games a bit more whether it be by tv ads, ads on the net, or just in-store posters, cardboard cut-outs, and other imagery of some sort. With a little help from everyone, Sony could have free marketing from it's current userbase. Letting people know what is included with the $299 package and showing off what the PS3 is capable of isn't a hard thing to do. I've convinced several customers at my last job to go the way of the PS3 simply due to the fact it had built in wireless, free online, controllers that didn't require batteries or a charge kit - and i've banded a bunch of friends together to get PS3's, and it was done simply because of the free online.

They have the games, Singstar, Eyepet, Little big planet, Mod Nation Racer, Ratchet and Clank, Buzz, Sports Champions, many PSN games and third party ones as well. The problem is their console isn't price pointed for the casual market and they have failed to position their brand as a casual system. Their marketing is unfocused. They try to be all things to all people and that is one of their strengths in providing well rounded products but it is also their Achilles heel. Even the price point for the games, Wii games are priced at $10 cheaper on average. That shows that the Wii is set up to attack a target market and they are focused on going after it. Even if a casual game comes out on the PS3 and it's $40 people might just assume it's $60 because that's how much other PS3 games cost when they come out so they wont even bother to register on their radar. If a game comes out on the Wii they will know it's $50 most likely or less. Sony obviously can't lower the price of all their games but it's one of the many problems that Sony faces to try and brand themselves as a console for casual gamers. 

The Move could be a great platform that casuals would love. But the problem is from a marketing stand point it almost creates more problems than it solves for casual gamers because it's on the surface similarities to the Nintendo Wii. If someone sees a 30 second commercial for the Move it's almost impossible not to think, either that it's a cheap Wii imitation or that it is infact a Wii commercial if they don't catch the ending. Kinect obviously doesn't have that problem and they almost have the same novelty excitement in their commercials as the Wii did when it came out which is great from a marketing stand point to sell to casuals. MS does however have many of the similar problems that Sony faces such as the price point of games and such. 

Sony's problem is not product. Sony's problem is lack of information in the marketplace and brand positioning.

In the UK at least a price cut is desperately needed.

The shelf in my local supermarket has the HD Twins sat side by side.

Xbox 150 GBP

PS3 250 GBP

I know the PS3 does loads of extra things but as a games machine IMHO its a dead heat at the moment.

Sony need to drop the price to regain the sales lead !