Allow me for the moment to talk about Gears of War ...

Gears of War is rapidly approaching the 5,000,000 unit mark and has been bought by (roughly) half of all XBox 360 users, and probably somewhere near 50% of the rest of XBox 360 owners have rented, purchaced used or stolen the games. It is a AAA game by anyone's definition ...

With such a huge game it is surprising that the XBox 360 just passed the 10 Million unit mark recently.

The reason I bring this up is that the PS3 may have games which sell amazingly well but this does not necessarily translate into high hardware sales. The percentage of gamers who are willing to spend $300+ on a system is very small, and that means that the PS3's userbase is going to be very limited until it drops below $300. The question is how many of the always impatient publishers are going to wait for the PS3 to build its userbase when their investors will be demanding healthy returns on investment today?

Nice spin but most of those games are available on the 360 and the other haf are poor quality games.

Heavenly Sword and Warhawk are the only really decent games on that list that are exclusive to the PS3 and they don't compare to the 360 lineup at the moment but more and more games are being released for the Europe Sony fanbase.

Nice spin but most of those games are available on the 360 and the other haf are poor quality games.

Heavenly Sword and Warhawk are the only really decent games on that list that are exclusive to the PS3 and they don't compare to the 360 lineup at the moment but more and more games are being released for the Europe Sony fanbase.

By the time the PS3 hits $299 this generation will have been decided already. The PS3 will at $299 in 4 quarter 2009 at the earliest. In the two plus years it takes the PS3 to get that pricing level the Wii and 360 will built and even larger lead over the PS3. Developers will have shifted the bulk of their sources away from PS3 by then and the situation will only worsen.

Not at all. $399 in 2008 dollars is $299 in 2000 dollars, the magic price point where the mass market opens up. The PS3 will be cut to $399 sometime in 2008 - I'd assume spring, or fall at the latest. The install base will mushroom accordingly. Sony has one of the biggest studio networks in the world, churning out products left and right. It also has powerhouse franchises like MGS, FF and GT.

Pointing to the success of Bioshock and Halo 3 only underlines the fragility of Microsoft's position. Both are games popular to a certain demographic - fans of horror-survival shoot-em-ups and FPS games. Both are genres dear to my heart, but they're not even close to the bulk of the gaming market.

 Why is it that everyone looks at the PS3's line up which is in it's second generation looking this good and the 360's third generation and say Sony doesnt have any good games. Sony's second generation titles are better looking then the 360's 2nd generation of games (Uncharted and UT3 looks better then Gears).

But we all know that the 80GB will have a price cut when the 60GB runs out.