Not to mention M$ is scrambling to get Xbox 360 Elite out, because they realized their console was rushed to the market.
And the only reason it has a larger user base is because it was out first and people just wanted something advanced… not very advanced now is it ?

BTW I don’t know a PS3 or a 360, I’m just going on facts here. ( my brother owns a PS3, and a friend owns a 360. So i have played them both )

The 360 do have problems , mine broke with 3 red lights 3 weeks ago , since this happened i decided to trade it in for a playstaion 3 , Wow what a great machine , how surprised i,ve been with all the negative press , playstation 3 is by far the most advanced system i have ever played , very happy i changed

Well done playstation (sony) you proved me very wrong !!

Sony, on the other hand loses money every time they sell a PS3. It is actually quite reasonably priced for what you get. Sony’s problem is that it is still a Video Game system, and $500 – $700 and even more for a video game system is perhaps a bit too expensive for the average gamer.

I feel Sony has backed themselves into a corner. They are priced too high on a system they still lose money on. Any price cut made will cost them more and more money. It will be interesting to see how the next year or so plays out.

Sony will regret their pricing strategy in 6 months in the UK market. Wait and you will see a BIG price cut. That is why the Wii is doing so well, Nintendo decided to make a loss on each unit sold as they knew the games sales would make up for it.

That’s the ball bearing to determine it’s orientation you idiot! That means if it’s standing up or not. Thought I best make that clear, you seem a little simple ;)

* 335,000 Nintendo Wiis
* 228,000 Xbox 360s
* 127,000 Sony PlayStation 3s

This means that 48.5% of the new video game systems sold in February were Nintendo Wiis. That’s a big ouch for Sony, whose high-tech new system appears to be struggling for consumer acceptance with Nintendo’s less-tech, but more fun, Wii. Interestingly, Sony’s PlayStation 2 sold 95,000 units because of its recently reduced price of $129. The strong sales there indicate that the PlayStation 3’s launch price of more than $500 was prohibitvely high, and that PlayStation customers are happy to just buy the old system.

In some ways, the slow sales of the PlayStation 3 appear to be a flashback to the launch of the 3DO in 1993. While the unit was way ahead of its time technologically (it was among the first to offer CDs instead of cartridges), its high price point (among other factors) put it at a competitive disadvantage compared to simpler, less expensive systems like Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.

Perhaps Sony will lower the price (they are already taking a loss on each system sold) to increase the user-base for new video games. Right now, developers will be much more inclined to work with the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii, which have sold 2 times and 5 times as many units as the PlayStation 3, respectively.

Interestingly, Atari founder, Nolan Bushnell, was predicting that the PlayStation 3 would “fail” even before it was released. In November, he told Red Herring that “I think Sony shot themselves in the foot … there is a high probability [they] will fail. The price point is probably unsustainable. For years and years Sony has been a very difficult company to deal with from a developer standpoint. They could get away with their arrogance and capriciousness because they had an installed base. They have also historically had horrible software tools. You compare that to the Xbox 360 with really great authoring tools [and] additional revenue streams from Xbox live … a first party developer would be an idiot to develop for Sony first and not the 360. People don’t buy hardware, they buy software.”

If the second part of Bushnell’s hypothesis comes true (developers being in no rush to produce software for the PlayStation 3), Sony could be in serious trouble.