I think the thread was just worded wrong ^^;;; had the thread been titled "Do you think the PS3 will ever Catch the 360?" I think some of the answers would have been a little more legitamate, and in that regards I will say yes, I think the PS3 will catch and surpass the 360.

 lol, I see what you mean :) but it still has a long way to go. 

Dude you are a xbot to the fullest.... Everyone on this site saying the wii will stop selling is stupid but once the ps3 sales a few weeks over 360 everyone says that will stop soon. the ps3 has 2 things going for it that no one esle has.. Blu-ray (which is STILL selling 70-30 to HD-DVD) and the fact that there is not one HUGE game out yet. if you are telling me xbox has any games that are better next year then halo 3 and call of duty your an xbot. MGS4, FF13, killzone, God of war 3 etc.. WILL move even MORE systems Gears of war will not.... sorry.....

and if you thing sony will not lower the price when microsoft does or very soon thereafter your crazy.

So far the PS3 has had 2 price cuts, I cant count that as many compared to how many times the 360 has been lowered.

Not sure how many exclusives we're talking about here? the most major shot was Devil May Cry 4, otherwise much else isn't really worth mentioning. People are making up this "losing exclusives" myth essentially because the games for it were mentioned to be on PS3 platform back when everything expected the PS3 to blow the competition away.

Alot of multiplatform games today were never announced to be PS3 exclusive. But its healthy to have multiplatform titles and 3rd party exclusives. People who believe that every single game that is on the PS3 will becoming to the 360 are getting their hopes up a little too much. Especially if they count Sony for being so ignorant to actually let that kind of thinking fly at their office. Each console will have its 3rd & 1st party exclusives. And the PS3 is no exception.

well they will cut the price when they can (65nm RSX in a few months will save about $50 on manufacturing costs, and the 45nm cell will save another $20, Sony not manufacturing the cell and buying in bulk should save another 20 too)

They may be able to reduce the price to manufacture but that will probably not be translated into a price reduction for the consumer.

The general approach of the loss leader strategy in videogames is to start selling your console at a loss, wait for the manufacturing costs to be reduced to a level where you're making a decent profit on each system sold and then reduce the price of the console to (nearly) a break-even level.

From what we know the PS3 was probably not close to breaking even when they reduced the price earlier this year, and even if they were they're probably losing quite a large ammount of money on the PS3 with no real (magical) way to rapidly reduce the manufacturing cost to a break even level. Any further price cuts in the near future (say 12 months) would only drive the entire gaming division at Sony into deeper losses and (in the long run) brings the survivability of the Playstation brand into question ...

Basically, there is only so much any of the companies are really willing to lose in a given quarter/year and the longer that Sony is losing money on the PS3's hardware the more likely it becomes that their first party developers will see cut-backs which will (tyipcally) result in a lower quality product.

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isn't Afrika coming out this week?

the ps3 is significantly more expansive in europe
a ps3 costs 600 dollars here (almost 400 euro's)
against
'just' 400 dollars in the us

i might be wrong
but there should be some price-drop space in europe for sony

(one might say that distribution costs might be higher for sony in europe so they aren't making 200 dollars profit per console compared to the american units, but i don't believe this, i really think that the european units are that much more expansive cuz 1. everything is more expansive here, other consoles but also houses, cars, clothing actually everything, so sony is making 'easy money' compared to the us)

so if there is more space, i'm sure that sony will follow quickly with its one price drop if ms slashes the price of the 360 in europe