I have no bias against the PS3. I am angry that Sony sacrificed their momentum to put a dying format that multiple companies had money on over intentionally. You know just as well as I do, that Sony can ill afford to screw around while Microsoft gains momentum. Thats all Microsoft knows how to do. They gain momentum and they eventually monoplize. Sony is the same way, but Microsoft is far more potent in the effort.

It is not the common people of the US that are conspiring against Sony's push into America. It is the Media, Government, and MS bought publications(Variety Magazine) that are herding the "sheep".

Actual consumers, when knowlegeable about the PS3, and for the right price, will go that route. Unfortunately the Media is in constant HATE on PS3 mode so that is what consumers see all the time. The bad word spreads like disease over the internet. Because of this the PS3 has to work TWICE as hard as the 360 in order to sell. Yet even when the PS3 is doing very well WW, American publications still find things to nit pick.

And can you not see that the US is the ONLY reason the PS3 is being outsold WW?

 This is bias at its best.

I said 400+ mil people because I didn't know the exact population of Europe. It looks like you're right. According to wikipedia, europe has 730 mil people. I also do agree with you on America being the consumer capital of the world. We use up most of the world's resources by ourselves.

Remember though that there are a lot of EU countries that are not useful in this comparison like czech republic, ukraine and such but add a lot to "bloat" the population used for these comparisons. Ukraine has 150 mil people for starters but I can't see any console doing a 500k there. Also, you say english is the consumer language like it's somehow their fault o their problem that english is not their first language. What is spoken where you live is what you learn. Learning a second language doesn't appeal to many and in most cases, you can never get as proficient as your original. English being the consumer product language of choice (especially in gaming where language is a big deal) thus hinders sales in these countries.

In other words, factoring all these things I said in effect, the comparison of US sales to EU sales is all the more fair. The closeness of the ps2 sales in EU to US even adds to the reason why the comparison is useful. Thus the drastically different 360:PS3 sales in US vs EU has some meaning as forevercloud is trying to point out. I think there's a bias against the ps3 here in America like forevercloud is saying but I don't think it's any sort of "nationalistic pride" causing it because the US doen't really have anything like that due to it's population composition in the first place. I think it's more  a result of media presentation. Even my 9 year old brother told me that he read online that the ps3 is dying that I may not have anything to play in the future.

Having a respectable media outlet like CNN post the kinds of articles they've post and the furor when the ps3 originally launched in the US are the reasons I think fuel this line of thinking. Add the lost exclusives to the mix and it really lets the dogs loose. In my local gamespot, even the day I bought the ps3 , I was told it was just "garbage" and there was nothing to play on it. They also try to talk about me into getting a 360 and selling my ps3 whenever I buy anything ps3 from them.

Whenever I ask for a PS360 game version, they always bring the 360 one if I don't specify what system and many times even after I specifically said ps3 version. For condemned 2, they never carried the ps3 version till a week after launch. I had to buy it from kmart. It may not seem like anything to you since you favor the 360 anyway but for us those of us who have ps3s, this attitude takes a psychological toll. I just buy from amazon now.

Spare me. America sells Sony as one of the hottest products one can buy. Anyone who was anyone in the 90's had Sony tv's. Sony is a brand that demands a disproportionate amount of respect that it doesn't exactly deserve.

The media is talking about Sony's financials. When the PS1 and PS2 were selling well the media praised them. This is the thing about the American media. If you have celebrity status...one fault and they jump on you.

The PS3 has had to work twice as hard as the 360? Please. The 360 was looked at in the beginning with the evil eye from the world. Once the world saw that the 360 is a cheaper yet still potent HD experience they either loved it or hated it. Sony's marketing this gen against the 360's couldn't even hold Microsofts jock and the both of them have been laughable compared to the Wii. 

Sony walked into this knowing they would sell at a loss because Blu Ray was an 800+ dollar production cost. They had a $200 loss per system, so don't give me that crap.

If America fears Japanese product so much, then why has the Wii sold 20 M consoles in the states? This is as opposed to the other countries who cannot even compare.  It's all bullshit. This argument is weak. If everything goes wrong, blame America.

Most corporations are just out to make money. Thats what they're made for. It's not necessarily evil.

They really teach American kids to "Never buy American"?  I don't know I just have a hard time believing any of your "facts".

 The blu-ray format was new at the  time not "dying" as you put it. It's reception couldn't really be predicted which was a gamble. IMO, they just had the wrong vision of things. These people are humans not gods. It looks to me that Kutaragi thought the new technology presented by the ps3 would appeal to gamers regardless of the price. Perhaps, as an engineer at heart, it got to him that people always said the xbox's hardware was superior to ps2s so he got carried away on the tech front. He did say some outrageous things which didn't help the cause as well. Personally I don't really listen to PR so I don't care much for what he said. I did get a ps3 anyway simply because I wan't continuum and I'm heavily invested in a playstation library of games that still sees use. I do use ithe ps3's other capabilities now but they were not necessary for my initial purchase so I do agree with you that blu-ray was unnecessary yet BC was for me lol.

M$ would be hard pressed to eliminate nintendo but you're right that they've one-uped sony this gen and are capable of more. However, I also think that the very fact that ps3 has done what it has done despite the odds in price, loss of exclusives, media fallout, gamer rejection, etc means that M$ can't kick sony out of gaming either. Sony themselves would have to leave voluntarily if they feel they can't make money from this business anymore. Thus, M$ would be hard pressed to gain a monopoly in this ndustry.

Exactly. And they've really jumped on sony this gen. which is where the "bias" comes from. You may not realize this but reading these articles influence consumer purchase decisions. If they think the ps3 will die why buy one? This contributes to the ps3's stalling in the US.

@Legend11

Have you ever owned an American made product? If you had, you would know why........

@Prestine
I was kind of kidding with those last ones, but they are evil . As evil as a monopolizing corporation can get. You do know that Walmart ships there products from overseas sweat shops filled wit 10-15 year olds that are chained to tables and work practically all day for little money? That is no exaggeration and there is a documentary movie about it. The others are just as bad.

@STAGE
Have you even surf the internet for the past two years? apparently not because there is no such praise for PS3 going on at the levels you are tying to portray.

Lets take the recent events of Sony cutting staff. Did you know that Microsoft has been cutting about the same if not more of their staff i different divisions just like Sony? That they are indeed suffering from the recession like EVERYONE else. If you did know about that, how many articles did you see pertaining to that? How many pertaining to the PS3 cuts in comparison? I estimate 10 PS3 ones for every 360 one.