You seriously overestimate general awareness of bundles and their effect on sales.  Yeah, bundles drive sales to an extent, but they usually don't lessen demand before release.

Just look at GTA. 

PS3 has loads of great games to come this year and next, as for sales impact, i think PS3 will come second to the Wii in japan and others, but the 360 will beat it in the US, they will both sell 40m+ lifetime.

i think microsoft needs to drop 360's price in america

They need that to regain back their lost sales to Wii and PS3...

 While taking a piss this morning, I actually had quite a different feeling. I felt relieved.

I would say that the PS3 has been losing speed. The gap between the Xbox360 and the PS3 is shrinking, not growing and has been that way for weeks.

@Squilliam: He is saying he FEELS that it MIGHT eventually, with the upcoming games, potentially, totally destroy the X360. Maybe. As an assumption. Cause his right knee is itching again.

MS will ride it out. MGS 4 will move quite a lot of PS3's in US and Europe and reduce the gap between PS3 and 360. MS will just watch and wait before a price cut at start of November.

Gears of War 2 will be out around 23rd November two years after Gears of War was released on the 360. Gears of War 2 will sell a lot of software and move 360's during November and December especially in the US.

US are mad about shooter games: Gears of War, Halo 3, COD 4 and countless other shooters have sold huge numbers in America.

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Too Human and Fable 2 are  due out in fourth quarter 2008.

Resistance 2 on PS3 will be launched around the same time of Gears of War 2 in November. PS3 also has LBP, Socom:Confrontation, White Knight Story and War Devil coming out in fourth quarter 2008.

Second half of the year especially the fourth quarter of 2008 and will see the best games released on both the PS3 and 360. 

I'll be so bold as to say that console sales are not about games (X360 had a much better first year software-wise then the Wii yet the little white box still trounced MS' console) or price (Wii still beating the Xbox360 here in Europe, despite the fact that the Wii costs €249 and the Xbox arcade €199).

What MS should do to make the X360 more attractive to the PS3 is what it adds in value compared to the other system. This is not the capabilities of software or hardware for that matter, but what it adds in you're living room. MS should market the superioritity of online play over the PS3 for instance (someone mentioned he merely got an 360 to play online poker). Or does anyone remember the "show off amazing video game skills" thread where there was a link of a guy playing "through the fire and flames" on expert on his 360 with his friends cheering him on. That would make me want to buy an X360, not a static poster or an (television)add for Fable 2.

Dropping the price on a console will not help you in the long run as a company, as long as people don't see why they need to play you're console.

i think the price cut will mostly steal ps3 sales not wiis