@ seece

He raised points that made sense, whether I agree with all of what he said is irrelevant. There are people who said that KZ2 would move "no systems". Then when that proved untrue it was "wow, KZ2 didn't move THAT many systems". Bottom line, KZ2 not only moved some systems (as I predicted), but it helped the PS3 outsell it's nearest competitor for the week, despite being twice it's price, in an economic crisis.

To me, that's telling and says that if you have the right software, you can still be competitive, even if you don't move tons of systems like Halo or Gran Turismo would.

@ seece

He raised points that made sense, whether I agree with all of what he said is irrelevant. There are people who said that KZ2 would move "no systems". Then when that proved untrue it was "wow, KZ2 didn't move THAT many systems". Bottom line, KZ2 not only moved some systems (as I predicted), but it helped the PS3 outsell it's nearest competitor for the week, despite being twice it's price, in an economic crisis.

To me, that's telling and says that if you have the right software, you can still be competitive, even if you don't move tons of systems like Halo or Gran Turismo would.

I wonder if you realize that if X360 hadn't just released Star Ocean a week or two ago, their Japan numbers would be even lower...

The point is that even being twice the cost of entry, the X360 is still having trouble with worldwide dominance over hardware sales.  That should have MS shaking.  MS is about out of price cuts, but they still have similar hardware sales to a console twice the cost of entry.  Then, with the current quality line up of games, a PS3 price cut could be quite vicious toward the competition.

It's starting to become clear to people that the nasty negative press towards the PS3 is unfounded, so they are starting to ignore it.  It might even be pushing a lot of people towards the PS3 (opposite of the desired effect).  For 2008, PS3 worldwide hardware sales were only 30K behind X360.  That says it all.