Smart observation.

Fanboy counter-argument.

Ownage.

Ba-dum-tschhh!

You don't understand that 360 would be near just a low without any price cuts. The holiday rise hasn't even begun yet. Last year in America at this time the PS3 was around 25k. By the end of October, it slowly rose with new great releases and doubled by the end of the month. In early November it tripled. And so kept rising till the end of Christmas.

There is no reason for PS3 sales to be higher then they are now. There is nothing wrong with them. Comparing them to a console that just had a major price and assuming it will stay this way forever is your biggest problem.

Double the price of the 360, same userbase. Not too hart to figure out.

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Hello, it's the price cut. The PS3 has outsold the 360 WW all year until now.

ioi said: 3 reasons sales are "down" guys: 1. Main one is that it is early October - one of the slowest times of the year. 2. The economic situation. These two factors are affecting all consoles which are all down from a few months ago, apart from: 3. 360 price cut which obviously steals some potential buyers. Pretty simple stuff really

You heard the boss.

That's quite innacurate. If you look at games released and being released this past 6 months and the next 6 months you begin to notice a steadily increasing gap between the graphical capabilities if first party ps3 games vs first party xbox games. The difference is not yet huge but it is definitely becoming more noticable and the ps3 is ayear ounger than the xbox  meaning it hasn't even experience the same degree of hardware familiarity from developers.

Tell me why exactly would people go to the PS3? The graphics you say?

I'm sorry, but is this the year 2006? Have I been caught in some time warp that sent me back to 2006 or am I just in a very large time loop like Groundhog Day? If the answer to these questions is no, then I guess that means that your argument is basically worthless.

So you're saying that nobody on the face of this earth could possibly prefer a system with more advanced gaphical abilities?

Pretty irrelevant to be fair; I know perfectly well how blu-ray is performing in the US market, but that avoids my point entirely. I merely pointed out that the competition does not in fact offer an 'identical' experience.