Next Gen War

[SpoDaddy]

They break even on the premium bundle now, they still lose money on the core.

[Drewbacca]

lol @ people who buy Core units.

[voltz]

I thought M$ had a new HD coming out.

[Rumpy]

I thought M$ had a new HD coming out.

Just a rumor. A very strong one, but still a rumor as of right now.

[Gooch]

Seriously though, if Sony matched Wii shipments unit-for-unit there would either be PS3's languishing on store shelves or PS3's languishing on Ebay (this is more likely). Sony's actually being intelligent by shipping so few PS3's; they don't want to draw attention to the fact that mainstream gamers aren't spending $600 for a videogame system.

Let's not be fools about the subject. The PS3 would have sold like hotcakes at $600 on launch if the units were available. If any happen to pop-up in stores between now and Christmas, they'll fly off the shelves faster than a rabbit gets fucked. At $600. Thinking otherwise is borderline delusional.

[TaekwondoNJ]

Did that site's Wii count just drop a good 200k?

Yes it did.

That site sucks.

Yes it does.

[Shin Johnpv]

Any system is going to sell out at launch if units are there it'll sell. What happens after launch is what is important. All though if Sony can't get their manufacturing shit together they may end up handing the market over to their competition. I have to wonder how long 3rd parties are going to wait on Sony to get a decent amount of units into consumers hands. If these production problems continue to persist I have to imagine a lot of 3rd parties are going to be looking to the Wii and 360.

[Nei]

(Pst. Don't believe that site's numbers. 360 has sold maybe 5 million worldwide at this point. I doubt Sony's numbers are actually that low, though they probably aren't a whole lot better. And Nintendo's numbers should be wayyyyyy above .5 million.)

If you think their numbers are wrong, where is your research to prove otherwise?

[MarkRyan]

If you think their numbers are wrong, where is your research to prove otherwise?

For 360, actual sold numbers from Japan + Europe + America totalled under 5 million as of the end of October (numbers from organizations such as Media Create and the NPD)--no way there's another 2.5 million from the rest of the world. For PS3, Sony sold at least 80,000 in Japan (I believe they're up to about 130,000 now), and aimed to ship 400,000 to the US--those all sold out, of course, though I suspect there were fewer than 400,000 (maybe 250-300,000, based on EB/GameStop's presale cuts and the less-than-expected launch numbers in Japan). Nintendo said they'd have one million Wiis at launch and most reports suggest they had more--especially as they aim to have four million out by the end of 2006.

[ElCapichan]

For 360, actual sold numbers from Japan + Europe + America totalled under 5 million as of the end of October (numbers from organizations such as Media Create and the NPD)--no way there's another 2.5 million from the rest of the world. For PS3, Sony sold at least 80,000 in Japan (I believe they're up to about 130,000 now), and aimed to ship 400,000 to the US--those all sold out, of course, though I suspect there were fewer than 400,000 (maybe 250-300,000, based on EB/GameStop's presale cuts and the less-than-expected launch numbers in Japan). Nintendo said they'd have one million Wiis at launch and most reports suggest they had more--especially as they aim to have four million out by the end of 2006.

There was no way in hell there were 300,000 PS3's for US launch. And wasn't Sony saying they were going to have additional units for Black Friday? Didn't this supposed re-launch never occur?