NPD:

Average sale price Xbox 360: $261, average price last year? $260

Average ratio of Sony PS3s 120 vs 250GB 9:1.

Average sale price PS3 = $305-310, difference: $45-$50

Without any more data its pretty reasonable to assume the difference caused by the Arcade console units to be roughly matched by the difference the integrated Blu Ray drive and playback makes on the PS3.

Oh and anecdotes suck, I have friends who are just using their PS3s for Blu Ray and will be migrating back to playing PC games due to 3D, but its a useless anecdote.

Have you read those reviews? My favourite coming from a 40+ mom.

"The "professional" reviewers of this game are too jaded and are not taking this game for what it is-- it's not for your hardcore competitive shoot-em-up gamer..."

Sounds more like the usual nintendo-zealot than a 40+ mom. :)

No, I'm just telling the thruth. I like her, some of their songs are really good. Love the style too, even though it's kind of a "hey look at me I'm trying really hard to be different" thing, I like it.

Don't get me wrong, she is good, and she'll be around for a couple of years.. but just as britney, aguilera, gwen, jennifer lopez, lavigne, backstreet boys, Nsync, West life... and a bunch more in pop music, she'll just dissapered. Unless she pulls a Madonna or Michael Jackson surprise... which I really doubt

Users?? Pffff! what do they know??

@MRFENIX

Ofcourse 40 year old mom's would post reviews on a video game, why wouldn't they?

360 is totally doomed

I thought this was one of the more intriguing ones:

While the game play mimics Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution style games, one thing sets this game apart: if you're not good at matching the dance moves, the song (and the game) keep going. You don't get interrupted, or have the song get cut short because you miss a certain number of moves.

What that means to players: you can play any of the songs, regardless of difficulty or effort rating, and make it through the entire song.

I know more than one person who loves DDR but hates the life bar. Getting high scores and full combos is fun, getting booed by the game or getting cut off by the life bar is not. It's a relic from DDR's arcade roots that Ubisoft was wise to dispose of. Those who just want to play don't have to fear failure, while those dedicated enough to push for a high score are free to do so.

As for zealous mothers, were you expecting them to be debating the finer points of Killzone 2 vs. Halo 3? They're going to be enthusiastic about the products that provide what they want. Reviewers have no respect for the expanded audience or interest in serving their needs, so the expanded audience has no respect for reviewers.

In reference to 360 sales in others, for example in Spain you can find in some shops like www.game.es a 360 arcade for only 129,95 euros. That's even cheaper than the DS. Anyway, it has nothing to do against the Wii or the PS3 there.

Wait, wasn't that good ol' Nik Kershaw?

If you so like to think... It could even happen, but the more time passes without Wii exceeding 50% total sales, the less likely disruption gets.

And don't forget that unlike PC market, that has continuity and allows MS to never release its iron grip, console market hasn't, it's split in generations and nothing can grant Wii2 the success and disruptive power Wii has, at most the biggest continuity element new gen can offer is BC, that greatly helps at start, but never did more. For what we know, 8th gen could even be partially or totally disrupted by Apple, or Nokia, or Sega, or Google... or Oracle (NOT, j/k! ), leaving MS, Sony and Nintendo with a blank look.