Seriously? And people believe them?

We're doing better than expected. Instead of earning money, winning the console race, and having the best gaming library, as last gen, we're now losing money like hell, selling the least consoles, and are steadily losing games to other consoles. Go us!

How the hell can they do better than expected? They expected to lose more money than they already have? Their PR guys, who I think are morons, must be the smartest guys they have.

They expected to lose more money than they already have?

Yes,they have said it many times.

 But they are !

you fail to understand 1 thing :

in 07 , Sony has done worst than predicted and they even had to reduce the price by 100$ (40gb) t-o save the PS3 boat.

but in 08, they have lowered a lot their prediction taking in count (finally) that PS3 was quite expensive and, du to the early price drop, that they were losing more money on it than expected !!!

So, compared to their 08 prediction (that u can find somewhere but I dont know where), the sales numbers are possibly better than expected.

(to say it differently, they have made a lower scale prediction for 08 than 07 so they will not have to say "we are not able to follow our prediction like in 07" and they will able to say "we are selling better than predicted")

At the end, matching or not your prediction is not so important.

the strongest sales figures of the 360 are still to come. It all depends on how fast

ppl get hd-ready. Still most ppl just own television sets where hd-consoles can't

show their true potential. The Wii still is the cheapest console 'cuz you don't need

a HD TV to tap its potential. Its as simple as that.

From summer 2009 on i expect the 360 to dominate sales charts until Xmas 2011.

On 12.31.2010 i expect those ww sales:

Xbox360:  70 mio.

Wii:           65 mio.

PS3:          42 mio.

on 12.31.2011  of course.....

So desesperate to damage control the news =/

Also, congratulations Squilliam! Your sig took a turn for the better.

Its nice to see the PS3 is starting to pull back from being supply contrained in NA. Wii sales are dropping even though its supply in the market gets bigger and bigger. And people have started to adapt the 360 due to its amazing package deals at retailers. If the holiday bundles have not hit the market yet, i would expect another increase in sales once those arrive.

the ps3 wss supply cinstrained in the usa? when? this is news, why werent there articals, or is it just wishfull thinking. i do remember a breif time after e3 when it was but thats months ago. i do agree though that bundles should help the ps3 this christmas, i expect many games to get limited bundles to help fuel sales, without a price dorp thats the best way to run

Ahh, of course. Their 07 prediction. I thought he was talking about their prediction before PSWii launch.

The PS3 was/is supply contrained in the same way the wii is, some locations have them and some don't and the locations that do have PS3's have them in small supply compared to the other systems.