Poor PS3!

I really like the PS3 to do well, just like the 360.

I would want something like 360 + PS3 = Wii sales, just to keep Nintendo on it's guard.

Too much success can spoil Nintendo. Like taking Christmas season for granted because they know Wii will sell craploads anyway.

the numbers for the wii and the 360 are very good, the ps3 needs a really good bundle or bundles and a $50 price drop, then the sales would be around the 360 is at now in the states.

Well, here's the sales for this week, compared to last week:

Console	Last Week	This Week
	342,927	335,757
	192,603	272,219
	150,361	190,250
	79,069	91,195
	72,386	86,236

Wii: 7,170 unit decrease
DS: 79,616 unit increase
360: 39,889 unit increase
PS3: 12,126 unit increase
PSP: 13,850 unit increase

Really interesting sales this week. Both numbers and comments...

I cant believe I;m going to say this, I agree with you.

The PS3 is 2 years old, the Xbox 360 is 3, and Wii is 2 also. This Holiday season is important but it isnt the last hoiday season any of these console are going to have. Remember that the PS2 outsold all three consoles two years ago and it is obviously older than the three current generation consoles. This goes to show that it is still WAY to early to call who will be second place.

Grant it the PS3 has fallen back some this holiday due to its price tag does not mean that its not selling pretty well considering the economic state and its price tag. Comparing last year to this year though the PS3 is still holds around 5% more marketshare than it did whikle the 360 has fallen from holding around 50% to 29.9% now thanks to the Wii.

Sony has stated plenty of times that they want to make profit before anything else at this moment. This is why no price cut this holiday. If they can sell several million this holiday and be able to cut manufacturing costs enough to earn a profit off the PS3 they will be happy losing 2% of the market to Microsoft.

Still to early to call. Cut this "OMFG the PS3 is DEAD" talk. In two years when we see the Wii having 70% marketshare I think we all can just say "OMFG the PS3 and 360 are both dead!!!"

Do you really think that wii will have 70% marketshare in 2 years? :)

The term is quagmire. Any Sony supporter trying to spin this straw breaking the camels back will find themselves waste deep in a morass with no logical escape. Unlike previous points in this generation for both consoles there is nothing firm to latch onto. I have a hard time recollecting any time where either console had no saving grace in the depths of a dark moment. Sony is losing in two regions, and tying in the smallest third market. The hardware moving software has effectively flopped. The future library prospects are dim. Even the pricing has never been more lopsided. All of this with a weak economy choking off prospects.

Earlier this year without hesitation I said the PS3 had the strongest lineup. This was truly a soft year for Microsoft and Nintendo in regards to lineup. The software delays on the PS3 were actually going to result in a heavy hitting lineup for the console. Sony was outperforming Microsoft in two markets, and was making up some ground in the third. Then almost as a gift Microsoft had supply issues. Which gave Sony a free hand. Microsoft couldn't even capitalize on a price cut had they delivered one.

Despite all the bitching and moaning over the past few weeks. Sony started the year out with a nearly perfect scenario. This was the year to get it done if it was going to get done. Now it is looking as if Sony couldn't even do that, and Sony was not going to win this holiday season even if the economy hadn't gone into recession the price point would have still pulled Microsoft up. Just perhaps not in so pronounced a manner.

Now looking forward into the future, and this is what this entire post is about I see something that is being overlooked. Microsoft and Nintendo will have resurgent libraries next year while Sony will be running on rebuild as Microsoft and Nintendo were this year. The pendulum is swinging hard away from Sony. Now they have the weaker upcoming library, they have no momentum, they have moved out of pricing position, and now it looks as if loss leading will be curtailed by external economic pressure.

Some say Sony is getting reamed now. What happens early next year when Microsoft is reloaded, and Sony is drawing empty. What happens when Sony draws Killzone 2, but Microsoft draws Star Ocean 4, Alan Wake, and the first Grand Theft Auto 4 expansion in the same time frame. There is a term for that its called a blood letting. For every major game that Sony delivers Microsoft is shaping up to have three or more. Worse Microsoft can probably avoid dry spells while Sony will most certainly have them. That means Microsoft will be the one using major game releases to inflate weekly sales.

This was the year for Sony to do it, and a price cut early next year is not going to do much for them not when they still cannot match Microsoft, or even come close to putting up a fair fight against Microsoft's lineup. Someone show me the bright spot, because frankly I am not seeing one.

I agree.

People also need to think even though PS3 sales are rising only a little Sony knew that this would happen and as u know they have lost like billions on the PS3 so there best optoion was to keep its current price for xmas because the sales will still rise making them more money then if they were to cut the price. its better for Sony to get sold out by the competitor for 1 xmas period then to loose even more money.

Well Christmas is just around the corner. This isn't that surprising.

Also, the Wii might make 1million this week. Maybe.

No, the Wii's market is saturating too... it's just the demand is so large that the effects of it saturating is going to take a long time to be noticeable.

Haha!
Sony is in trouble.

Xbox360 is doing really good!

Expanding marketshare, growing install-base.
The Xbox gamers are becoming a very strong force in the market.

Microsoft is building is Gaming brand!
Wait till next-gen!