360 only sold as well as it did because it was 1st to market which gave it a year to sell to the bleeding edge crowd. Problem for 360 now is that 1) it's no longer bleeding edge & 2) it's a piece of cr*p.

Of course MS is going to claim that 360 will continue to sell more software than PS3 because in 1 year Nintendo & Sony have crushed it in terms of hardware, gamers aren't choosing 360 over PS3 or even Wii! Live is the only selling point 360 has left, but PSN is going to steal that away when Home launches this fall.

MS had the chance to crush Sony last year, but for some reason chose not too. Now it no longer matters how much payola MS spreads around, 360 is dead. View

MS should invest that 500 million improving it's brand because they cannot compete with anyone when they step outside their Windows monopoly & Apple is rapidly chipping away at that.

They need to step back & do a bit of soul-searching because when the only reason people buy your products is because they have to your company simply isn't viable long-term. I'll be surprised if their share of the desktop OS market isn't marginalized by Apple within the next 5 years. View

Sales do matter because 3rd parties allocate resources based on sales trends. Try to talk yourself into believing some delusional fantasy that sales don't matter if you'd like, but the fact is that Devil May Cry & Final Fantasy didn't go multi-platform because Capcom & Square-Enix saw a healthy sales trend for their titles exclusive to PS3. I think I just heard some 360 fans chuckle, but there's bad news for them as well because Fatal Frame & Monster Hunter didn't go Wii exclusive because 360's trending any better.

IMO this article is spot-on. Sony was the market leader for the previous two generations, but they decided to throw that all away in a rabid attempt to force a new video format on consumers. Pointless, because even if adopted Blu-ray will be short cycled by digital distribution. Yes, Blu-ray sales are up 300% this year, but DD sales are also expected to more than double this year ( http://newteevee.com/2008/0... ) & Microsoft's deal with Netflix could accelerate DD adoption over Blu-ray.

I own a PS3, but there's no way it's ever going to achieve the market penetration level of PS2. Consoles typically shed 50 percent of their launch price throughout a console cycle which means the cheapest we can ever expect see a PS3 is $299. Problem for Sony is that when Nintendo releases their HD console for $249 it'll not only have the hype of new, but worse will still be $50 cheaper than Sony's aging dinosaur. View

Reggie actually laughed when Geoff said, "not gonna happen." Laughing is the polite way of saying, "not a chance in hell." View

Microsoft simply wasn't aggressive enough last year when they had the opportunity to knock Sony out of the console race. They should have cut $100 off the Pro SKU instead of $50 & launched the Elite SKU with a built in HD DVD drive for $399. Yes, they would have continued to lose money, but they needed to strike hard & they certainly could have afforded to wage a proper war.

Instead Microsoft decided to play cat & mouse with Sony by keeping the 360's price tag hovering near the PS3 long enough for RRoD to reach epidemic proportions, the Wii to pass the 360 in worldwide sales & consumers to begin viewing PS3 as an outright bargain compared to the 360 with it's 33 percent failure rate. View

I don't understand how they still think they can afford to lose BC. If BC doesn't matter why do sales spike so much with the reintroduction of SKUs with BC? If BC doesn't matter why did I buy the 80GB SKU last month? I can assure everyone that I didn't pay $100 extra for a copy of MGS4 & 40GB of disc space! View

PS3's problem isn't architecture, it's price. PS2 was a nightmare for developers at first, but it was amassing an install base at the pace of the Wii today so developers gritted their teeth & took it like a man. Problem for Sony this generation is they over shot what consumers were willing to spend on a game console by $300 & further compounded the problem by launching during a global economic down turn. View

@pwnsause: Nintendo hasn't forgotten about hardcore gamers. 1:1 motion control certainly isn't for casual gamers who are more than happy waggling their little sticks at the screen & hoping for the best, it's for hardcore gamers. Stringer might want you to believe that the Wii is an "overpriced niche gaming device," but that's actually what the PS3. View

@gnothe1: You can kick & scream about how great Xbox Live is until you're blue in the face, I personally don't care. The fact that you & your friends already have PS3s waiting in the lurch poses a bigger threat to 360 than even the infamous RRoD, because the instant PSN catches up to Xbox Live in functionality you'll all be boxing your 360s up in their cardboard coffins for a stroll down the driveway to the trash bin instead of loading them in the backseat for yet another trip to UPS. View

MS squandered their lead. The original Xbox was a solid piece of hardware, but MS followed it up with something akin to the quality you'd expect from a Happy Meal toy not a high end game console.

To say that people are buying the PS3 simply because it's a PlayStation is naive to say the least. I bought one of the MGS4 bundles last month because I expect a console to remain functional for the duration of it's console cycle. I also expect to be able to pull it out of retirement 5 years down the road for the occasional bout of retro gaming.

The 360's build quality is so sketchy that I can't even expect it to make it from 1 major release to the next.

360 is being outsold by PS3 because it's a $350 pack of paper plates & for that kind of money we expect china! View

3 disagrees? I'm not sure how you guys knew that I would be making a late run to Best Buy last night to pick up a copy of Grid which makes it 25 games in the last 4 weeks, but you guys are good :) View

Not once in the past year did I wish the 360 was cheaper, so MS better hope they got it right. Frankly I think the 360 needed a build quality increase a helluva lot more than it needed a price cut. I just got tired of waiting for MS to actually fix the damn thing & bought a PS3 last month. View

Not really. I bought my PS3 4 weeks ago & have already purchased 24 games for it, so Sony doesn't really need to convince you to buy anything ;) View

In NA it seems lack of BC has more to do with how poorly the PS3 is performing against the 360 than price. In the long run I think Sony would be better off discontinuing the current 40GB and cutting the price of the 80GB SKU to $399 which is likely what they intend to do once they've trimmed production cost of the 80GB SKU down to $399. View

Technically the EU price cut let MS know that gamers would prefer to spend a little more to get a Wii or a lot more to get a PS3. I'm sure that's not the result MS was hoping for, but that's what they got. Can't wait to see how the price cut goes for them in NA. View

Neither one of them is going to get you l*id Friday night or land you a better job Monday morning, so I'd say their both about as useful a bucket full of sand in the desert. View

Last week Wii nearly outsold 360 & PS3 combined by a margin of 2:1, worldwide, so PS3 is obviously more popular than Wii as consumers rarely go to Wal-Mart to buy things they actually want. View

No, you're actually wrong. MS, Nintendo & Sony are all competing for a share of the same market while Toyota & Ferrari are not. View

HD space requirements are listed on the back. Don't want installs, don't buy games that require over a MB or two. View

If the build quality of this thing is anything like the 360 then the Wii has absolutely nothing to worry about. View