"I enjoyed the Gamecube and it was dead last."

That is a fine statment if the console cost your $100 and you could get another for all the real games. But if the console cost you $599 then you will be a bit upset, and can't till now afford another.

The PS3 is not dooooomed but it will now always be 3rd and it will have the software of a 3rd placed console, just like the xbox last time round. The biggest impact of being 3rd now is that the brand is in decline. This is different from the xbox last time, it was the first so what ever it sold it was better than the last one. For Sony this is now the downward slop and there will be a impact on the next generation as software companies will be more inclined to wait and see what it starts to sell like. But we will see....

most of these so called doom threads started out as sales discussions be it weekly yearly what not and then became doom threads, that and discussion of a price drop, price point saturation, and sales of software. how do you distinguish ginuine topic discussion from bashing, as a lot of it right now might be negative in both fields. 

now if you want to confine the number of threads on a single topic like this weeks sales, numbers this year vs last year, that makes sense to kill duplicates. but to kill a thread because the discussion trends negative, especially if people are using sources and citing things is pretty harsh. 

edit/note, i dont care if its ps3/360 doomed, id still like a chance to talk about the subjects I layed out a pretty cool  set of senerios a while back where sony could take advantage of not having a price drop this year and cleanup next year even with a drop as late as october... 

goddog, if he closes any threads you think are valid, complain about it then. Don't complain preemptively

im trying to have a discussion to find out the perimeters of what we should avoid. if we are to limit speech id like to know how far i can push it.  why should i have to protest retroactively when i can find out beforehand?

Not if it sells in the future as good as it is selling right now.

To be clear: I obviously won't close sales threads or pricepoint threads. And if there's a good reason for a thread it won't be closed of course.

There were really too many threads about how the PS3 was going the way of the Dodo. It's already not allowed to make duplicate threads, this one is just a help in achieving that there's one place where people can show their anger/sadness/whatever about that. People can also cite and uses sources HERE. It's not a censorship about the topic. In general I feel that we don't lock threads enough in case of duplicates.

Anyway why is it such a bad thing to have tooo many "The PS3 is Dooooomed" threads. It may help someone who is not that clued up about the state of sales decide which console to buy. I know you don't buy a console on how well its selling but it is a factor, nobody wants a console that could be cut from some large 3rd party games because its not selling and this site is for the public to found out about things. Just because things are not going well doesn't mean anyone should remove the bad bits.

Just for the record, after looking through google, yes the PS3 is dooooomed and doooomed big time. Out sold by the 360 3 - 1, what must the wii be

oh god ,,,thank you

okay, this is all i was looking for a bit more of a description of what this new rule was