I hate to point this out to you but as a Sony stockholder you should be uber-*edited*ed at the PS3, all it has done since launch is cost Sony money and dig into the profit margins which used to be quite high. The fack that, on release day, Sony was losing upwards of $200 per console sold should have cost someone their job. I don’t know what their profit margin is on the PS3 now but I know for a fact they are still losing money on every console sold so it’s not really that smart to be a Sony stockholder right now because the failure of this system could lead to ultimate collapse of Sony. Not to single out Sony, Microsoft hasn’t made a single penny on the XBOX or XBOX360 but they have the infrastructure to absorb the loss. The only console that has made money so far is the Wii, which Nintendo makes at least $50 profit per console.
The PS3 will NOT be seen as the ideal Blu-Ray player because, as I predicted a few days back, the prices of existing players is going to drop dramatically over the next year. As retailers are dumping HD-DVD players for whatever they can get for them, the price of Blu-Rays is already falling in sales ads. The PS3 will only be the ideal player so long as it is cheaper than the competition and while it may be able to compete with the player market for the time being it certainly won’t be able to come summer, especially now that the HD-DVD manufacturers are going to retool to compete in the new market.
The following is the NPD US Hardware Sales report:
It took over a year for the PS3 to start outselling the PS2 and it certainly isn’t because there wasn’t any to sell. As it stands now, the Wii is predicted to overtake the XBOX360 in total sales by the end of 2008. If the current sales trends stay as they have been, and there isn’t any reason to believe recent events will skyrocket PS3 sales, the PS3 will have less than 1/3 of the sales of it’s 2 competitors at the end of 2008.
Sure the PS3 is probably the most powerful of the systems but they are hard as hell to make games for which is why a number of developers have brought in 3rd party coders to make the PS3 ports of games instead of coding it with their own people. This can, and has, led to inferior versions of the same game being released on the PS3 as compared to the XBOX360.