Bring out a cheaper version without Blu-Ray? People are way to focused on the pricepoint of the ps3. Sure when it was $600 that was totally true. but now the ps3 costs 399, which is on par with the Xbox Elite. Looking at what you get the 399 seems more then fair. The Blu-Ray is actually the smartest thing Sony has done in a long time. It’s not just in there to play movies you know. Companies such as Rockstar complained about the 360 limited storage and are working on a ps3 exclusive allready that will take advantage of Blu-ray. Same goes for Team Ninja and any other developer that wants to push gaming to it’s limits like Hideo Kojima. All the ps3 exclusives seem to get 9+ ratings and MS just cant compete with that in the long run.

There is just one simple reason the ps3 is slacking behind the 360 and that are the limited number of exclusives. And since the ps3 is getting ported versions of 360 games there was just no reason to buy the ps3 for a long time. But that is dramatically changing at the moment.

The 360 has a very succesfull launch with all of their succesfull franchises making an appearance on the 360 real early. But right now they to have run out of steam. Everybody is complaining why MS hardly announced anything for 2009, while Sony is just warming up.

In the end it is all about the games and MS just doesnt have the exclusive franchises and first party support Sony has build in over 2 decades. Personally I am more worries about Ms then about Sony. MS seems to be kind of lost at the moment. They cant compete with Sony’s first party support and exclusives and now it seems they are focussing more on casual gaming. If they were smart they would go back to their pc roots.

Wii-43mn-2006
360-26.4mn-2005
PS3-18.8mn-2006

This doesn’t mark the end of the console’s battle race at all with 360 and also Wii. Well the ideal pricing would be in the range from 320-350$ to enter the competition. And a higher number of exclusives (atleast 3-4 titles) in the first quarter of 2009 will add momentum.

The PS2 had a lesser extent of slow start of 6.5 million by end of 2000 and it shot up to 49 mn in 2002 end aided by great exclusives. This means that somewhere during 2009 end or early 2010 end there can be same magic of tremendous boosting of sales upto 45-50 mn aided by exclusives and ground breaking PS Home feature.