You do know the rumored Slim is also rumored to be coming with a price below $200, dont you?

A cheap, slimline PS3 will do great this Holiday. Especially if the rumored $169 price is true.

ioi, Ive just seen your post in the graphs thread.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4689061

It makes me smile.

well it is pretty slow but the big season is on its way again,

is it because the wii evergreen titles have gone,what happened to those

So there are 16 more weeks ending Novemeber 3rd, and then 4 weeks for November and December.  Going by your assumptions for November and December, a "positive" prediction would have the PS3 averaging as low as 37.3k over the next 16 weeks.  Even if you were to cut those holiday predictions by 25%, it would need to average less than this weeks sales to end at 10 million.  If that is positive, what would the negative predictions put it at?

let's see now.

1) The home consoles are all a bit long in the tooth. What intelligent person would expect them to still be selling shitloads at this time of year in their old age? Why keep saying these numbers are bad? Did you expect any thing else?

2) At this time of year (probably for the last 3 or 4 years) people always call for price cuts. If a price cut did help it would be greatly negated in terms of revenue when sales picked up over the relative holiday seasons, losing MS, Sony and N'tendo million$.

3) I personally believe the days of the handheld are numbered. Those big sales of days pass are not likely to come again. They are not dead yet, maybe not even on life support but the first death blows have been dealt.

ps3 slim will do nothing? i just cant understand where your coming from here. ps3 is nearly already the best selling system now even before the price cut/new model, so why will a much cheaper mass market priced ps3 do "next to nothing"?

I know this is a sales site but i never really been that big on console sales, as a gamer they dont really do much for me or to me, i dont have stock in any of the 3 and as this gen has proven the best selling one doesnt automatically mean it will get the "best" support. I am interested in actually game sales just to see how they stack up, but each game has an individual wall. Speaking of games, its kind of strange to see the 3ds game sales do so poorly yet, the system is selling ok. are people just buying Mario?(Ive had mine for months and yet to buy a 3rd party game myself)

In Japan, 3DS owners are buying Dragon Quest, Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land, Monster Hunter 3G, Fire Emblem Awakening, Kingdom Hearts 3D, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Resident Evil Revelations, Mario Tennis Open, Harvest Moon, Martio & Sonic at the Olympics, Inazuma Eleven, Theatrhythm, Hatsune Miku, New Love Plus, Etrian Odyssey IV, Rhythm Thief, AND Metal Gear Solid 3. Note how many of those are regional exclusivesat this point.

In the USA, 3DS owners are buying Nintendo's four big hardcore titles so far (3D Land, Kart 7, Uprising, and Ocarina), but not much else. Note the absence of more casual titles such as Nintendogs, Mario & Sonic, and Mario Tennis.

In Europe, people are buying the Marios, including the one with Sonic, Resident Evil, Uprising, and Nintendogs. Note how this market is more balanced.

My conclusions: People in Japan are buying games, but the American 3DS market is still too niche and hardcore, while the European market is still small. Part of the problem is the platform's lack of non-Japanese games, but it is also hurt by how many games either won't leave Japan or are still being localized.

Fortunately, the upcoming release of NSMB2 and the XL worldwide should boost non-Japanese sales. Oh, Japan will see a huge boost too, especially with Brain Age Demon, but they need it less.

Sigh...I had a really lengthy post here, but it's deleted for whatever reason. Crazy.

Anyway, I failed in my calculations. If the PS3 sells, on average, 130k per week until the holidays, it'll sell an extra 2.08mil from now to October 31st, leaving it at 6.88mil with 2 months to go. Selling 500k then 750k, on AVERAGE, it'll hit 11.88mil by the end of the year, not 10-11mil. 11-12mil seems more realistic.

And the Slim redesign will boost sales by about 100k, no-one really wanted one. But the pricecut could help, another 500k? But sales drop beforehand anyway (read: 3DS), so the overall increase will be around 450k over other figures. The market is saturated, people want new stuff. The Wii has reached it, the 360 is starting to suffer. The PS3 will hit it soon. And when it does, nothing (new games, price cuts) can save it.

Things will get interesting again with new PS3 model and Wii U later on this year and PS4&720 next year. But i agree sales has been predictable since early 2010 to this day.