Might be quite a long time.  they need the current price to help with overall profitability and they don't want too high of PS2 sales as it might cannibalize PS3 sales.

No matter what this person says, I find it rather hard to believe that it had nothing to do with hardware sales. It must have had SOME effect. Maybe not as large as anticipated by some, but still...

@papflesje

maybe the sales we saw in the earlier part of the year..which were bigger than now were due to the oncoming GTA 4 effect

First MGSIV, then final fantasy XIII and Grand Turismo IV and finally, the world of PS3 shall see the despair of a second place. (with good games though)

Fixed.

A similar article over at Next Gen offered Patcher and Sim Exchange estimates, as well as VGChartz's.  But the VGC numbers were butchered.

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10831&Itemid=2

Hardware sales predictions were as follows from Pachter (The simExchange) (VGChartz):

Wii - 750,000 (744,000) (645,327)
Xbox 360 – 250,000 (216,000) (191,992)
PS3 - 225,000 (228,000) (177,989)
PS2 - 125,000 (n/a) (105,894)
DS - 550,000 (510,000) (454,086)
PSP - 200,000 (211,000) (193,188)

Those numbers ARE NOT what the Source has in his NPD preview, so where the hell did they get them from? 

Looks to me like they took the NA numbers from NPD preview and multiplied by 0.9 to estimate US sales only. 

Ohhh... ok. Thanks. I keep forgeting that VGC = ALL of North America and not just US.

Also note that they are talking about the sales in NA, (as given by their referance to NDP) and ivo is from the Netherlands.

I agree not meanigful or sustained improved sales but sales for the 360 and Ps3 did increase when GTA was released...