If we take this stance, it's impossible to make any comparisons about anything:

Did the Gamecube sell well for its price?

How about the Neo-Geo? Best-selling $700 console ever!

What about the Gizmondo? It sold great for its price! Never mind that it lost so much money that it destroyed its parent company...

I think the Phantom was the best-selling console ever for one that was never released. It sold infinitely well for its price! [/sarcasm]

Stop making BS excuses. Bottom line: holiday sales should never decrease for any healthy platform entering its third holiday season. I dare you to find any successful video game platform that saw sales go DOWN in the third holiday. Because I've run the numbers on a ton of them, and I can't find any. N64, XBox, Gamecube - they all went up in their third holiday. The only one I can think of that went down was Dreamcast, and that's because the whole damn thing was discontinued earlier that year.

if u haven't noticed we were in a recession this time last year too...go google government admits recession has been going on since 2007 if u dont believe me.

No offense, Sony can only blame themselves. Not enough good games to justify the price. Yes I understand we are in an ecomonic crisis right now and that the 360 has 90% ( i think it's more like 60% cuz of the consant cancellations and coming out a yuear earlier but wutever) of the same games the ps3 has, but understand this in general:

I'm goin to the store holiday season looking for a cheap good graphics console(aka I'm a naive consumer) and I see the wii the 360, the ps3, and the ps2.

PS2: already had it,dont want it cuz intelligent enough to know that it's last gen, dont want it period.

Wii: Looks last gen ( I said naive consumer not stupid),sold out, or already have it.

PS3, Too expensive period, Too expensive to have games that are on other cheaper console with mostly same graphics,Still developing might wait another year.

360: RROD ( though it's becoming less and less likely with the newer models),don't like Microsoft( yes there are those people),"know that u need a hdd to get online, pay 50 dollars a year for live"

now I quoted the last part for a reason, unless the guys read the fine print, the wont know that last part and most likely buy an arcade which is the cheapest of them all of the current gen....kno if u are naive consumer...what would u pick...recession or not?

If we take this stance, it's impossible to make any comparisons about anything:

Did the Gamecube sell well for its price?

How about the Neo-Geo? Best-selling $700 console ever!

What about the Gizmondo? It sold great for its price! Never mind that it lost so much money that it destroyed its parent company...

I think the Phantom was the best-selling console ever for one that was never released. It sold infinitely well for its price! [/sarcasm]

Stop making BS excuses. Bottom line: holiday sales should never decrease for any healthy platform entering its third holiday season. I dare you to find any successful video game platform that saw sales go DOWN in the third holiday. Because I've run the numbers on a ton of them, and I can't find any. N64, XBox, Gamecube - they all went up in their third holiday. The only one I can think of that went down was Dreamcast, and that's because the whole damn thing was discontinued earlier that year.

wow 1 million people buying a dead console in recession? ps3 is dead for sure.  imagine if sony cut the ps3 price to $199 for just 1 week. i would love to see the numbers then.

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 08th Nov 2008 to 29th Nov 2008:

At 400$/€. How bad for Sony... =)
it probably will sell 2 MILLIONS or even more in December, again at 400$/€.
Selling 3 mln. consoles in 2 months probably is very BAD. PS3 is dying. =)))

wow, atleast somebody got the point and is not a blind troll. =))

Come on, it`s a MILLION, why you are not happy? Just because other consoels sold more? YET, PS3 did 1 MILLION consoles in November, probably will sell another 2 MILLIONS in December. ;)