Now the PS3 has got the price cut, the games, the networking tools etc etc

Pretty much everything the 360 has.

So with that do those PS3 supporters now conceed there can be no more excuses in terms of how the PS3 does sales wise?

The main defence was always the price of the console. People would say "When the price cut happens xyz will happen". Wit lots of games to come people would say "wait untill xyz comes out" etc etc.

In my view that cannot be used anymore. The PS3 is a good console and now has a good price tag. Not as cheap as a 360 but not that far away from it.

PS3 from first week of September HAS to sell more consoles worldwide then 360 or i honestly do think that is it in regards to who takes 2nd and 3rd place this generation.

I would agree that the rest of 09 is going to be very telling as to the consoles lifetime sales numbers. This kind of smells like a flame war thread but heck I'll bite.

nope no more excuses. mark this day and september 1st as hopefully the turning point for the ps3

just wait for gt6, it'll save the ps3.

But yeah, I wonder how MS is going to counter this.

Well, it is still the most expensive console....
Oh w/e sure why not?

Just GT5 now, once that sells less then expected by the crazys it'll be official that the PS3 cannot be saved.

There already were no more excuses.

This holiday season won't be telling. What will be telling is January-May next year.

The slow season is when we are really going to sort the men from the mice with regards to how the two companies will compete at new price points.

But I agree that as off now all PS3 fanboy's excuses are off the table. The console must perform now and not stop performing, or it's all over.

Isn't the PS3 slim uglier than the current model? :|