Is PS3 set to dominate console sales for the rest of the year?

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VGKing on 24 September 2012

No. The Xbox 360 will win the holidays.
There is no predicting the Wii U sales...it launches close to Black Friday so the launch should go smoothly.

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think-man on 24 September 2012

Ps3 will win 2012 without a doubt but the holidays will be close.

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cookingyourmama on 24 September 2012

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If YOU choose to blame the wrong people then that's YOUR problem, you can argue till you're blue in the face but you still won't be right.

Sony doesn't lower the PS3's price so I'm not buying it. The end.

And I lived happily ever after.

Obviously not because you wanted a PS3, and now because you can't accept the fact that the prices were at the levels they were due to retailers getting in to a price war you don't get to have a PS3.

I wanted a PS3 for a good price. 299,- is not a good price imo.

And I can accept the fact that the prices were at the levels they were due to retailers getting in to a price war.

I can also accept the fact that Sony will be releasing a pointless redesign instead of lowering the price.

Now Sony will just have to accept I won't buy the PS3 this year.

Although I doubt they will get as worked up over it as you...

Oh dear you really have no point at all.

Just a difference of opinion. Funny how that works huh? Sony Fanboy.

No you still have no point and can't take the fact that the prices are what they are due to retailers breaking the RRP of the old slim models. And here's a free tip, don't call people fanboys on this forum unless you want to get banned.

I come in here saying I'm not going to buy a PS3 because I don't like the pricing. Than you come in and say I'm blaming the wrong people and that I should be mad at retailers for trying to save me some money... (seriously dude, wtf)

I don't have any problem, not with Sony nor with you. It's you who seems to have a problem here. Are you a Sony employee? Does your life depend on the amount of PS3's sold? No? Than relax. It's just a console.

End of discussion.

You came into this thread moaning about the prices without having a clue why the prices are what they are. You don't like the current prices and you're entitled to your opinion but the fact is the only reason why there is now a price difference is because retailers broke the RRP of the ps3 in Europe for the old ps3's and so far they're not breaking the RRP for the new ps3's so if you've got a problem with that then take it up with the retailers, it's as simple as that. You still have no point.

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JWeinCom on 24 September 2012

@Cooking- Dude, his point is that he doesn't want to buy a PS3 at the selling price it's at. Why or how it got to that price is pretty much irrelevant. All the guy is saying is that he doesn't want to pay the money for one, that's his point. Why are you still arguing and derailing the thread? Drop it.

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So far Sony's YTD for 2012 is 81.7% of the YTD for 2011. If this trend continues and Sony sold 81.7% of PS3s of the 6.8 million PS3s they sold this time of year than they did last year, they'd sell 5.5 million consoles. Personally, I think they'll sell less than that. I don't think the slim model is going to push a lot of systems, and I think that their first party lineup (apparently highlighted by PS All Stars) is weaker than it was last year. Meanwhile, the Kinect still makes the X-Box a more enticing option for families than the PS3. Not to mention that the X-Box has Halo 4 which will be more appealing to traditional gamer demographics than what Sony is offering. Too bad GOW Ascension and The Last Of Us won't be arriving yet. Bad timing on Sony's part.

The biggest factor in the equation is the Wii U. The Wii U is going to suck a lot of the gaming dollars away from Sony and Microsoft. At only 30$ more than the PS3's new lower end slim model, the same price as a 4GB Kinect bungle, with the shiny new factor, and Nintendo's brand, the Wii U should be very successful and should steal some of Sony's potential holiday sales.

When all is said and done, I think Sony is looking at about 4.5 million over the holiday season. Can the Wii U outsell this? Well, that depends if Nintendo could make 4.5 million of them. Nintendo had about 4,000,000 Wiis in 2006, although I'm not sure all of them made it into stores by the end of the year. Supposedly Nintendo held back some of their supply. I think Nintendo could make enough consoles to be the #1 selling home console of the holiday season, but it's hard to predict.