Stupid fanboys. This is May. Consoles sell low in May. Also both the 360 and PS3 have numbers that aren't high, so that's actually not good for the industry. And the SCARIEST thing is that the Wii is dropping off as well.

The whole industry has cooled. Let's stop taking sides and start talking up the great games on all 3 consoles to do our part to help stimulate interest in our beloved pasttime.

what to do, well if you already have a PS3, then have fun and play games...it's as simply as that.

Now if your one of sony's financial advisors, then your got some serious work on your hands.....I suggest releasing a PS3 slim at $399 with out a price cut, this will spure sales as well as enable sony to start making profit on the hardware, then by christmas if sales have slowed down again, slap the mother fucker with a $100 price cut...and boom another mother fucking sales boost.

of course the slim would be have been designed in terms of manufacturing cost to take into account the $100 price cut so that it still remains profitable...this strategy ends up being a win win situation for everyone.

In any case, the PS3 is selling relativity well and that's when you consider that it's the most expensive console on the market as well as selling at that high price during an economic crisis, so with everything considered....it's not that bad.

  what matters is profit and revenue stream

if ps3 cost USD900, but not have profit then it is worse than xbox 360 with USD130 price tag, with US$5 profit

plus there is xbox live .

argument about price is already quaite old

at some point if we combined the price of 1 year xbox live + wifi and other add on, acctually xbox 360 are higher than ps3

, the big differences is ps3 sold at loss.

You speak of the systems as if they are living breathing things. In the end we are the ones made out off plastic and metal.

Teh PS2 shall rule all with the Wii sitting at it's right hand as they annihilate the world together. MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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I think I beat everyone with exclamation and question marks!!!

actually if microsoft was only a xbox company they would be 6 billion in the hole.  and the 360 its barely selling equal to the ps2 also.

considering the tons of exclusives ps3 have and have to come, and more range for pricing reductions.

i am more worried about the  360.

the biggest retailers panafoto and multimax don't sell them anymore here.

i am gamer not a stock holder, don't talk to me about profits but games =).

All I know is that the Xbox 360 from 2008 is not satisfied with crushing the PS3 in its own time, it also comes forward in time to crush the PS3 from 2009, 37k this week. 37k was how much the time traveling Xbox 360 crushed and destroyed the PS3 of 2009 by this week.

Inch or a mile, is contained in the referenced quote, therefore you did quote it. "Ask any racer. Any real racer. It don't matter if you win by an "inch or a mile". Winning's winning."  Theres no specified length you have to use to make it a quote. For shame. And lol at the picture.

Where did the OP mention the 360?  How about we stop speculating on the 360 sales and concentrate on answering the question.  I don't see why everytime something negative is brought up about the PS3 people always have to run in damage control mode and point to the 360.  Sony do not aspire to be number 2, if we compare their sales to their aspirations we see against the Wii sales, then the PS3 is a complete and utter disaster in every regard.  The Wii is a console that unlike the PS3 hasn't shed 25% off it's price within 3 years in desperate moves to sell units either. 

If Sony were telling the truth about aiming for profitability for a while then they should bundle some software and price cut later in the year when more savings are made on costs.  Any move right now on price would be a waste of time as the reason the 360 cut worked so well was the marketing drive they did at the same time which Sony is unlikely to be able to afford at this moment.

 Why would I be concerned about the PROFITABLE xbox 360 INCREASING Its lead on the PS3 which HAS NEVER MADE A PROFIT

& cost sony more than a 600 MILLION DOLLAR GAMING DIVISION LOSS last year?

Sony is in HUGE financial trouble and the ps3 is STILL In last place.....and getting further behind, while simultaneously LOSING 6

billion dollars in 2 years. 

Complete rubbish - dreamcast says HELLO!!!

if you dont pay attention to sales and profits you will find yourself with a paperweight instead of a games console.

Ummm Microsoft made 3 billion $$$$ in 3 MONTHS ...which more than SONY WILL MAKE IN 3 YEARS!!!!!!!