It will probably be unstable until early September.

/flushes toilet....there, that shit is out of the way.

ps3 is likely to rebound a least a few weeks before the supposed x360 price cuts. Certain people on the site seem to conveniently forget that MS holds the cards because of their ability to make a price cut at any time.

The sales will continue to drop until it's release then it will once again outsell the 360 again. Notice how as soon as the 360 out sells the ps3 for a few weeks we get constant clutter of 360 fanboys who need to grow up.

PS3 sales will be trailing the 360 until the 80 GB comes out.

This Christmas Period PS3 will outsell xbox360 2:1 WW

i think the ps3 will outsell it by around 50%

I'm not really paying attention to the PS3 (as I don't own one) so I don't know what their release schedule is like. Does the PS3 have any big games coming before R2/LBP around christmas? If not I see sales staying sluggish behind the 360 (assuming it gets the rumored price drop) until october/november, at which point I don't know what's gonna happen. 199$ Arcade 360s are a bigger threat to Sony than they are to Nintendo in my mind.

@ showertea, the main other games are SOCOM Confrontation and Motorstrom Pacific Rift as well as those two you mentioned. They also have WipEout HD and Ratchet and Clank Quest for Booty coming to PSN

With the dropping inventory of 40GB SKUs, PS3 sales have nowhere to go but down until its 80GB replacement is widely available.

The options now are either hunt down a 40GB, which is silly, considering there is nothing premium about the SKU, or simply wait a month or two and pay the exact same price for a larger HDD when they are available.

A sizable percentage of consoles is unquestionably sold to the walk in customer. If they don't find one at the retail outlets they typically frequent, they're not going to buy one until stock is readily available enough that they do.

Most people won't pay a premium through Ebay unless they're fairly desperate to find one, and there is nothing about the 40GB to command a premium price.

There's always the used option, but the typical consumer doesn't deal in used consoles either. That's more of a typical gamer behavior done to make multi-platform gaming cheaper.

As it stands, my guess would be that the majority of current PS3 sales are the MGS4 bundles, which isn't going to appeal to most customers who simply want the lowest price (and presumably have no intention of buying MGS4 anyway). Only a small percentage of people will buy the bundle with a game they don't want, and then go through the trouble of hawking the game on Ebay or Craigslist (not all that uncommon though).

If the 80GB SKU is shipped in ample supply, there should be a decent surge in hardware sales once they're available before leveling off, and then surging once again as the holiday season starts to ramp up.

I'm also thinking that the MGS4 bundle may soon be discontinued on the basis that it will cost more than an 80GB Core SKU along with a copy of MGS4 bought separately. Yes, the MGS4 SKU still has BC, but sales of the 40GB SKU alone have proven that this is not a major selling bullet point for the typical consumer. It boils down to a $40 premium for an unmarked (only well known to typical gamers) feature that many PS3 owners have no intention of using.

Great spin there. If you're going to count the PS2 in, at least don't claim that Sony has the most expensive console... You can just as easily say they have the cheapest one too.

In any case, I salute you for a fine piece of spin, hadn't seen one that big in a few weeks.