Just games. I know people say that games haven't been boosting ps3 sales but think about it how has ps3 managed to stay ahead of 360 and wii WW for so long when it was more expensive then both of them. It's games are obviously increasing it's sales, it's just there are so many of them so spread out it doesn't have an obvious bump like a 360 exclusive like gears which is the first exclusive real game to be released for the 360 in nearly a year.

Shouldn't people stop using this reasoning?  I mean, I used to when I first joined this site, but after awhile you realise it doesn't matter if we think fans already have a system, those games still give the HW nice bumps at launch.  Especially if the game has a limited edition custom console bundle, which FFV13 will undoubtedly have in Japan.  Having said that, I still think the PS3 will drop to $199 next year, sometime around the Wii U launch.

I think games will help boost some of it. I don't see another price cut so soon (maybe 2013), but there might be a new hardware revision in 2012. I think if Sony decided to start pushing out new colors in the US, then that will help boost sales some (maybe even a limited edition console).

heres a list of games said or scheduled to be coming out for PS3 exclusively next yr.


The agent
twisted metal
FFX remake
Journey
starhawk
The Last Guardian
Strike Suit Zero (also for PC)
Dust 514
Sorcery(move)
Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk-II
FF vs 13

thats 11 exclusives so far.


you should also expect info on projects being made by

MM,
sucker-punch
Sony Santa Monica
guerrilla games
eat sleep

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Agreed, we could see the games they are working on this coming VGA and early next year.

nice to hear but could you read the bold in my first sintence. i would think those 3 words would cover your comment, and thanks for adding to the list lol.

and i agree with your bold but until futher notice FFv13 at the lest is exclusive.

I have always wondered why Sony has never tried to release special design/colored ps3 systems in regions other than Japan. They certainly release plenty of system bundles (CoD, Infamous 2, Killzone 3, Uncharted 3, just this year), but they are all just a game with a standard ps3 unit with no special design or anything. Even the PSP got more colored/special systems in NA which all looked great and probably boosted sales at least for a little while (was hard to get hands on these bundles without preorders in my experience). 

In general, Microsoft has released more game/system bundles of all varieties, and it makes a lot of sense to me. A special design on the system  both encourages new people to buy a stylish system while also getting the collector crowd (like me) to buy multiples of the same system. Right now I have 4 Xbox 360's (CoD MW2 sys, Final Fantasy 13 bundle, Halo Reach sys, and Gears 3 sys) with one more on the way (Star wars Kinect bundle). I know plenty of people that also buy multiple systems as well just to have something collectible and new.

I have two PS3 systems and I am thinking about trading in my old fat one, but its backwards compatability makes me hold on to it for now ... and both are big, ugly, black systems with nothing special about them in terms of apperance. I bought a God of war case for my PS3 slim sys just so it wouldn't look so dull. It can't be that hard to put some special design on a system or to make it appear more interesting/special.

I am not saying that this is the key to sales or anything, but making a bundle with a neat colored/graphic system and fresh new exclusive might just catch the eye of customers instead of making yet another sharpshooter/move bundle that nobody needs (I saw one for a Goldeneye sharpshooter now lol they will bundle that crap in with anything).

50$/€ global price cut which kills off WiiU just before launch... HW revision is unlikely imo : the slim is fine and a revision would cost a lot of money at a time when Sony needs to hoard cash.