well based on where I also live the PS3 is THE item for christmas(or atleast Sony's hoping it is)

arcane_chaos said: well based on where I also live the PS3 is THE item for christmas(or atleast Sony's hoping it is)

Yeah I think it is the "it" thing this christmas everywhere but united-states.

"I consider the Wii to be technically between a current gen console and the PS2. IMO an important thing the Wii demonstrates is that there is potentially a very big after-market for the PS3 technology (for example maybe bundled with the new motion control sticks in the future).

The Wii hype is slowly dying, I think this will accelerate further in 2010 with higher HDTV penetration, mass markets for Blu-Ray, even more impressive and more high profile franchise PS3 games, etc."


Is it just me or does MikeB sounds like crazzyman?

Same here. At the local Best Buy, PS3 slim boxes are taking over, and the 360 section got pushed a row back.

disolitude said: Good for PS3 ... selling is better than not selling I guess. I still don't quite get some peoples mentality and why they touch them selves when a console they like sells well... Infact this whole videogame sales tracking universe here...we are all disturbed creatures.

haha,don't worry there are stranger than us out there,i can assure you

everyone is a nerd about something

 

perhaps the store has 'confidence" in the PS3 and ordered several gazillion units, but personally I'd prefer it if there were fewer lying around the shop floor. That would better give me the impression that they are actually moving units, not just stockpiling them.
But that's just me lol

*Tagged*

I would love to see some pictures

koffieboon said: MikeB, which Media Markt is that?

Same as last time, Groningen.

@ kowenicki

In 2006 the PS2 still greatly outperformed the XBox 360 and outperformed the new consoles for that holiday season as well. Last year it still outperformed the 360's first year and will likely to do so again this fiscal year.

You could also say last gen technology so far performed 140m PS2s + 60m Wiis (I won't count the GameCube as there is much overlap), 25m XBoxes and 10m Dreamcasts, but the Dreamcast can also be considered to be part of the generation before that (it's less clear than with regard to the Wii from a technical perspective).

So 235m last gen technology units sold so far and the PS2 and Wii are still selling!

I expect a new Nintendo console with high definition output support to more directly compete with the PS3, I think it will likely be less powerful, provide fewer features and possibly be more expensive at that point.

PS2 outperforming the 360 this year?  LOL, I was just reading a Gamesutra article about the collapse of PS2 game sales (and the further decline of its console sales) in North America.

In fact here's a chart for North America...

Now I know Europe is "Sonyland" but is the PS2 really doing that much better in Europe than the 360 that it not only compensates for North America but helps the PS2 outperform it?  Oh and in case you're talking about hardware sales, the PS2 has less than 25% of the hardware sales that the 360 had that month, where is it making up the hundreds of thousands of console sales required in order to outperform the 360?  The UK is about 1/3 of the entire European market and the 360 is slaughtering the PS2 there as well.  Please tell us all your definition of "likely" because looking at those numbers it seems to me it's "No chance".