Yep.  And I bought one for $300 which is a far better price that the original $600 for the original model.  Awesome console, man.

its funny when all these people are comparing aligned GT5 sales to GT4 sales showing it is only matching the sales. Even with huge adjustments up that is not good at all. I'll give you a quick comparison. In the weeks GT5 was released Halo Reach was on its week 9 and sold between 110-300k till week 17. GT5 is at week 9 at 90k and will only continue to drop. GT5 will surely show better legs then Reach in the long run, but holiday sales are that big of a factor as you will see GT 5 week 9-17 will probably be 40-90k weekly. Had GT5 been released at the same date as GT4 while first week sales would have probably been similar, Its sales over the next 8 weeks would have been half of what they are now. Still great sales but comparing aligned sales as proof that it will sell similar amounts to GT4 is laughable.

I don't think supply will be a serious issue going forward. Last year they had to ramp up from zero to supply to unprecedented Xbox 360 demand and for the most part they did quite well in doing so. Since the sales rate from here on out will dip lower than the production rate required to have met demand last year they should be in a good position to satisfy all outstanding orders within a couple of months.

As for price cuts, it isn't specifically about what they need to do but what they want to do. Their number one goal is to improve profit YOY for this year and the following year after that and so on, it is the funny thing which all publicly traded companies are forced to do by law. If a price cut would definately help them there then a price cut is on the cards, no question about it. Given the fact that they have high gross margins on their consoles compared to the PS3, they may be more profitable even in the short term with a price cut because selling more consoles spreads their operational cost base wider and enables them to sell even more profitable add-ons like Xbox Live subscriptions. Just because they are up YOY doesn't mean that they wouldn't want to be up YOY for second time in a row.

That includes Sony as a whole, and it specifically mentions TV's, Cameras and phones as the areas Sony sees itself being outgunned in advertising.

It also shows that Nintendo spent roughly $1.4 billion in 2009 advertising the DS and Wii.

$500 million for Kinect alone is gigantic.

More logic and truth.  That's why I like the community of this site.

What you said is true, but I also think they need to revise their marketing strategy. It could be ignorance on my part, but it seems like they're having a bit of a hard time gaining mainstream appeal with their products. Now, I don't vindicate this necessarily, but they need a thing or two that can really sell their brand, you know?

That £82 million was to cover advertising of the launch of the PS3 slim, and holiday advertising.

Even if you double, or even triple it to include worldwide advertising, Sony would have spent less on marketing the redesign of their console then MS did on Kinect alone.

Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, nothing, or nobody seems to be able to show any precise figures so it's all pretty much guesswork at best.

Well they're banking on 3D at the moment, we'll see how that pans out.

Wii difference with DS less than 1k. Wii still selling good after holidays.

there are no shortages, i live in Saint Louis MO. and every where i go there tons of 360s in stock. Walmart,Bestbuy,Target! everywhere!