Good January for Sony's games business

I remember when the PS2 came out and, Sony took a risk and made the machine with a DVD player instead of the cheaper CD player. Good Choice. Now that the HD disk format is settled, people are more likely to buy a Blu-Ray player, guess which player is the best one on the market? Winner: PS3, it is currently cheaper than many stand alone players and is fully compatible with the 2.0 spec that is either announced or soon to be announced. Microsoft decided to go with a DVD player in the 360. Thus, there is no reason for anyone to purchase a 360 except to play games. The media extender is merely a bonus. They won the race to be first to market, and thanks to Halo 3 they are sold a lot of consoles when it was released. However its narrow appeal to hard core gamers and its horrible reputation for only is going to doom it to niche status. The break out winner is the Wii which has been able to transcend the niche gamer status. My 67 year old mother in law, waited in LINE Sunday to purchase a Wii. I think the PS3 will do a bit better than the 360 but not nearly as well as the Wii since it appeals to both video-philes as well as gamers. Thus, it will be a niche plus product. Regards Joe Dokes

I bought one last night. :) I have a 360 but wanted a BD player and the PS3 is pretty much the sane choice if you like gaming. The 360 is a year older in it's cycle and it's numbers are still 7 million consoles more. At this rate the PS3 will overtake in about 200 months. ;) The 360 HW + SW sales is where about 40% greater than the PS3. I think the real fight is in the software realm now and there is very little argument that the 360 has the titles to really solidify it as the number one platform. Really shocking when you think about the dominance of the PS2 VS XBOX1, this really has been nothing but a stellar success story for MS. (Despite RRoD)

"I can't wait for them to sell their PS3 based on 45nm cell to buy one" um....don't expect any price cuts - Sony just sold their Cell facilities to Toshiba. ouch! http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUST28617520080220?feedTy... anyway, ya a PS3 is about the most sane choice for a Blu-ray drive. Period. Being that it's the most widely sold Blu-ray drive, Sony couldn't possibly screw over all the PS3 owners by not updating it via firmware to support new Blu-ray revisions....right??!? How come there's never any handheld sales figures? I'd be curious to know how the PSP is holding up against Nintendo's offerings. Does Nintendo still sell and support the GBA, or is it strictly the DS now? They change things too often for me to keep up. The PSP has had exactly 2 hardware revisions from launch, and only firmware updates in the interim.

60% of PS3 owners don't even know their game console plays Blu-Ray discs. http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/08/09/60-of-playstation-3-owners-are-obliv...

Joe, you're missing the point. Only 40% are even aware of the Blu-ray capability. Far less care about it, as evidenced by sales. And so far as PS2 sales go, that's more an indictment of how poorly the PS3 was conceived as compared to the Wii, for example, than it is a notable accomplishment of the PS2. I wouldn't be bragging about PS2 sales if I were Sony.