I guess this is relating to official channels and doesn't account for parallel import.

Also, that statistic perhaps has been done with consolidated data, a couple of years old, but Latin America's economy is fastly growing, although at a quite wonky pace, I wouldn't be surprised if currently that percentage would be 2.5% or more and if it would reach even more than 5% in the next 5 years.

I agree that PS4 will be better, if not for other reasons, at least because in 5 years Sony will be able to put more computing power and useful/enjoyable features into it for less money, but in 5 years PS3 components too will be a lot cheaper, so when PS4 comes, PS3 could keep on survive as low end model, priced below $150.

It's not piracy so much as over 50% of the world can't afford to pay the prices stuff costs.

untill a price cut the ps3 wont be able to speed up its sales because most people dont spend 400 dollars on a counsel unless ur an actual gamer.... and i deffinalty dont think the ps2 will have much longer on the market once its worldwide sales reach below 50,000 to 60,000 a week most stores arent going to be selling many so they wont be making a profit and it will be wasted space on their shelves where they could just hold more ps3/wiis/360

I do see ps3 sales going up, and probably 3 years from now will be the most succesfull in sales; however, I dont think that that will be enough to make up for the slugish start of the console.

an extra note. an average price of a ps3 in Mexico is about $800 dollas, so dont expect any big support in sales from , I guess, latin america.

Wii:$ 480
xbox:$ 650

 I don't think we will see any rumors of new consoles until 2010, also, I don't think MS would want to cut the life of the 360 just yet. they have a good thing coming on wih their 360. thst means that they actually going to recover the inversion in the original Xbox.

Reassuring customers and partners is not bad, remember that knowing XBox 1 was doomed to a very short life helped a lot killing it.

If Bosch keeps on selling (and providing support for) its now quite ageing and little changed food processor for an awful lot of money, PS3 could well become a commodity, once priced below $150.

He is right althought the number is wrong. If I remember correclty was Miyamoto that hinted at life cycle almost double of that of N64. He said around 7 - 8 years.

However you must think that Nintendo forecasted for GC LTD sales around 50 million. The goal was cleary missed in the beginning.

Iwata started in 2003 the refoundation of the company that brought , following Yamauchi desire, the company to disrupt the industry and make unprecedent profits.

plus, most of the wealthy people already imported a PS3 or Wii, not even mentioning the PS2.