If they sold the PS3 for $1 and gained the lead in the console numbers race would that count as a victory?

At what level does a price drop become utter desperation and seen as laughable?

 I doubt that the PS3 will outsell the 360 so heavily this Christmas, software and price will still hurt it too much for that to happen.

Sony doesn't need to change the hardware or even their price. They need to change how they do business. They have a model that requires them to be the market leader to have profit, they can shift to niche marketing and development resources to change to a model where profit is more per unit. (Like Nintendo during N64 and GCN generations, who still made profit)

 Well thats a double edgedsword them. Your saying no way Wii drops in price while its selling insane like this, but the guys argument is that the PS3 will catch the Wii. The Wii cannot keep selling insane if the PS3 wants to catch it. Even if the PS3 starts to sell insane as well, all that happens in that situation is the divide remains constant rather than growing month to month. Something has to give.

I will be happy the day sony goes bankrupt

I don't want that, but I do want them to burn a bit more and learn that they can't go hog wild on their hardware if they want people to buy it.

As much as I enjoyed the PS2, I still didn't budge on it until it hit the $200 price point, and even then it was a gift. I have every intention of doing the same with the PS3, if it manages to get enough games that I want, that is. :)

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Miyamoto: OH no the ps3 is starting to sell like crazy!!

I have an idea!! Lets not make millions of dollars and start loosing money by cuting the price of the wii to $149.99!!!!

Thats heartless...

I want Sony to lose this generation. I do not want them to leave the console industry, and by no means do I want them to bankrupt.

Why do I want them to lose this generation?

To get them to wake up. I'm still mad at how they marketed the launch of the PS3. It was an insult to the integrity of gamers everywhere how they assumed that we would blindly buy their product on brand loyalty alone, even if, at their own admission, there was nothing worth buying (or even buyable).

The PS2 was the greatest console this industry has seen since the NES, I don't think anyone can really argue that point. The Wii has paved the way to becoming the next big thing, and the PS3 is, largely, a joke right now.

If Sony collects themselves and realizes their error, they can dust themselves off and go back to how they operated this past decade. The decade that made "PlayStation" a bigger household name than "Nintendo". (Remember back in the day? When people were calling all video games "Nintendos"? The last ten years, they were called "PlayStations".)