PS3 sales have not seen that much of a leap since the $50 price cut Sony made about a month ago.

One thing that really bothers me about the PS3 now being $249.99 is that it is now the exact same price of the WI-FI only Vita. I dont know about yall but pricing a great powerful console the same/lower then your new handheld is a bit of a risky move and my opinion. 

Do yall think Sony should have waited for the price cut later this year or even next year. Making a Price cut in Late Augest seemed very careless of Sony for many reasons.

1. Gears 3 released a month after the PS3 price cut and the 360 is now outselling the PS3 in america by a 2:1 margin.

2. Doing a price cut at the end of summer in my opinion is the worst time ever. Kids gota go back to school, Young men like me gota apply/go to collage during this time. And vaction time/fun time comes to a end during this period.

3. Why could have they just waited till the holidays to do a price cut, Or atleast until one of Sony's flagship exclusives come out. (Uncharted 3)

Please let me know how you feel about this decision Sony made. It does not seem like a very financially smart move by At all..

"1. Gears 3 released a month after the PS3 price cut and the 360 is now outselling the PS3 in america by a 2:1 margin."

No way it outsold PS3 by 2:1, I dont believe these PS3 NA numbers at all, just wait for the adjustments when Sony will post their quarterly sales. Its always like that, Sony posts numbers, VGChartz adjust their numbers to keep up with the reality, see last quarter last year.

1. bundled sales of Gears 3, the biggest release of Xbox exclusive this year is not a indication of Sony's failure, more of a Microsoft's success. I'm not going to take it away from microsoft. Sony did nothing wrong there.

2. Fall is the beginning of the video game start season, (season is the dead season), nothing wrong with having a price cut to jumpstart the sales.

3. Uncharted 3 can sell consoles by itself, PS3 has always been about number of quality games (not just 1 or 2), it doesn't need a price cut to sell uncharted.


all and all, Sony did nothing wrong,

No, this price cut was not about how well it would do in the next 2-3 weeks, this was about boosting sales until the end of the year, and have enough time to boost sales, so that when the Wii U comes they come out with another price drop.

People over analyze 3 to 5 weeks after price cuts in general. Same thing with 3ds, the price cut was not effective because they had monster numbers immediately after price drop, it was effective because they keep selling 200k plus weeks later without decent software, and that is impressive.

PS3 is selling 165k plus without big software, I think that is good for a old machine. And another thing, Is we all know that Sony is not the best when it comes to informing consumers about the goodies their products have, even after the price cut it took along time to see adds about it.

Another thing, don´t ever bring Americas sales compared to 360, for the simple fact that theres nothing sony can do (this generation). If Sony dropped 50 today, they would still not sell more then the 360 in Americas, this is not about quality of choice, this is about how strong 360 is in there.

I think they should have waited until they could slash the price by $100/100€. That would have had a greater effect on the sales. Just look at what happened in Australia/NZ.

i couple of yrs ago id say yeah

but now i dont think it do much if they waited


one has to think if a 360 that has a model thats only $50 less which doesnt include blu ray or even a HDD and another sku thats $50 more and still doesnt have a blu ray drive if those can both outsell a ps3 in one of the most important markets then its really not the price of a ps3 or timing of a price cut thats the problem

and to further my beliefs the 360 had its price cut/ new sku in the middle of the summer and it had wonderful results, so i can blame ps3 recent sales performance on timing of its price cut. what i could blame it on is things they lost or dont have those things would be loosing some/all of the 3rd party exclusives from the past 2 gens that most associate the PS brand with, console features like the 360 being the choice for multi plat devs to develop on resulting in the superior version, even the ability to install games on the HDD that also results in better running game, and finally the lack of hardcore themed games like gears and halo or at least have some of the features that those games offer and that theyve been offering since 06-07 ie. full campaign co-op and local play

spot on amaral. a price cut isn't measured in shorterm but rather long term. it may have had a huge impact in the begigning, but Sony is looking for it to be just as affective during  the Nov. and Dec. which just happen to be the biggest months of the yr.

OP: look for the price cut to float PS3 sells through the spring and summer months in 2012.

and as always FFXIII-2 will boost sells for both consoles but most notably for PS3.

they will need another price cut next yr to counter MS price cut, and Halo4. but in saying that not much is known about the Sony camp next yr but i've already counted 6 exlcusives IP.

right now the battle/sells boost for the yr stackes up as follows.

UC3 (PS3) 500k-1m first wk

Battlefield (PS3/360) toss up

Halo anniversary (360) don't see it helping much, but i'm looking to be surprised.

COD MW3 (360/PS3) 360 favored

Bundles will be big but no telling how big. if MS out sells Sony this holiday season (2011cause its possible) there fiscal yr end is in jeopardy, but Jan. and March will play there final roles in Sony securing the win for the 2011 fiscal yr.

hey its spring time lol!

the 200k boost GEARS gave 360 only countered one of Sonys 2 200k wks. they'll need to counter the other serveral 160+k wks to take Sony out.

Nah, just readvertise the new price. Also, advertise certain games under PS3 like B3 during he holidays.

Same here.

I still cant beleive that lowered it down before gears 3 came out. 

A little bit foolish of them to do if you ask me. :/

It wouldn't of made a difference even when cheaper then the 360 the ps3 is just too crappy for people to buy over 360