"Biggest comeback ever" may well just translate to strongest 3rd place finish in a console generation when all is said and done unless either MS or Nintendo jump platforms significantly sooner.

SCE, on the other hand is more or less committed to the PS3 until it turns a decent profit thanks to a start deep in the red due to high R&D, specs and initial production costs.

But who knows? If the PS3 ends up being the last 7th gen console in production and MS and Nintendo move on to the next gen, it may well end up being the best selling console of the 7th gen by merit of simply staying in the game longest.

In all seriousness, will the next generation of consoles be such a significant leap over the current that it demands an immediate console upgrade? Maybe from a user interface, but other than that, any attempts to make specs significantly higher would only result in greater initial losses per unit off debut production models (ie PS3), or a significantly higher initial price per unit (ie PS3) which would only limit the potential initial market.

While it's a lot easier to say this now without sounding irrationally biased, it's not as though the PS3 was ever really in any jeopardy or that SCE was ever on the brink of dropping out of the console market, despite a fair amount of wish fulfillment fantasies that desperately want to see this happen for whatever personal reasons.

Soft support for the platform only continued to grow even as the "PS3 is dOmed" predictions persisted, which in the end, is really what makes or breaks any console platform. Lower prices on hardware only broaden the potential market.

the drop is slower every week, we just need to know where it will stabilize, and 250k is not terrible? Thats amazingly good, its enough to outsell both the wii and 360.

i will wait to see what the ps3's sales are for a few months like 5 - 6 , before i say a comeback is in the works.

I think you're just missing his "point" which would be something along the lines of if it sold 300k, then it didn't sell 500k which means it sold poorly. If it sold 500k, then it didn't sell 750k and thus, sold poorly. If it sold 900k, it didn't sell 1m units and thus... it sold poorly.

So I suppose the point is he doesn't have a valid one here.

On a slightly more serious note, if the PS3 at $299 can sustain anywhere between a consistent 30-40% increase in sales per week YoY, it's not a stretch by any measure to say the platform has indeed made a great comback. Anything more than that, hey; throw a party.

For those making wish predictions that sales rates will drop to normal levels once the initial "discount rush" is over, it's very unlikely unless soft development takes a sudden steep drop off the side of a cliff. Looking into 2010 releases, we already know that's not happening.

Rofl!!!!!

Anyone who thinks PS3 wont take 2nd place in this gen is delusional.

For 1 more week it may outsell the wii..then it will be behind wii sales until FF13 in Japan

That's true. But, that doesn't = Biggest comeback ever... i don't even think that's a comeback.

You have to look at these things in terms of total number of units sold over the entire production run of any given console.

If it's successful enough to stay in production long after the next generation has started, continues to see solid developer support presumably because it continues to move software, that is no small victory.

It all depends entirely upon how long each console of the current generation stays in production.

With the Natal re-launch, I have a hard time seeing MS dropping the Xbox 360 any time soon either, which may well mean that Nintendo, the market leader, in an industry first, ends up jumping into the next gen before anyone else, even if it is little more than a Wii HD console with HD specific games that will not play on the current Wii.

If that happens, I can easily see the SD Wii staying in production, eventually dropping down to the "everyone has one price" of $99.

Wait until February, then we can jump to conclusions. I think by then we can have a concrete 1st, 2nd, 3rd placing.