@karimkassis.

LTD means life-to-date... the date is currently 2nd January (GMT) so the PS3 sales by the 2nd Jan will be about 19.5 million.

As you can see underneath that, I gave an estimate for lifetime sales as 45-50 million.

I can guarantee you all that the PS3 will not exceed 70 million... And speaking of 70 million, I can guarantee the Wii will pass that in 2009.

Another thing going for my prediction is that IMO it will have a very long life, 6 years at least. Sony have shown they do not move onto there next console and give up on the latter. Also the PSP has not sold huge numbers yet they are sticking with it, it does not yet have a stream of good games.

And the PS3........well people saying it no longer has a good lineup are just fanboys, nothing else to describe them. Huge games coming starting with one next month, thankfully the "PS3 has no good games" excuse died some time ago.

 How could a price cut hurt the Ps3?

@RPG.

Sony have shown they will happily stretch out the life of a successful brand, they have not yet shown they can do the same with a struggling console.

Another thing which I am really confused about is that when I say a PS3 price cut will increase sales, some say "but it wont have the affect the 360 price cut had" why do people say that? One reason I can think of is that the 360 is cheaper but what I dont think people can get through there heads is that people actually want a PS3 but at a ceratin price, not just get the cheapest console around.

As I said, confusing stuff.

Well if Sony goes bankrupt due to a huge price cut that could hurt PS3 sales :P

Other than that, I don't know.

 By not pushing hardware.

PSP is not struggling? It has made profit but software sales arw awful yet Sony have not come out with a PSP2 yet with hardened security etc. Also I would have thought they would want to make profit on the PS3 and not abandom ship, expecially with production costs coming down all the time this making proft becoming more likely.

Yeah, but that wouldn't have severe enough short-time consequences to really hurt the Ps3s HW/SW sales. (Which is what this discussion is about).

Come on, you honestly think a £100 price cut would not increase sales?