Well a price drop wouldn't be for hardcore gamers but for mommy's and daddy's. The SKU which sells the most for Microsoft is also the cheapest and least equipped so price clearly plays a role for general Joe consumer.

If you think LittleBigPlanet, Metal Gear Solid, Motorstorm, Resistance, Valkyria Chronicles, Gran Turismo, Heavy Rain, Naruto, Killzone, Uncharted, Siren, WarHawk, WipEout, PixelJunk Monsters & Eden, Disgaea, Folklore, Heavenly Sword, God of War, White Knight Chronicles, flOw, SingStar, Buzz!, Ratchet and Clank, SOCOM, Super Stardust HD (and any others I forget) not to mention a raft of multi-platform titles (most of which featured in or won 95% of the XBOX's "best of 2008" polls on here) isn't in the least bit attractive then I have to scratch my head in puzzlement?

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MGS4 (which honestly you can't expect to stay exclusive because of the past titles)

I think it's feasible with the end of MGS4 that there may be multi-platform spin-offs but I wouldn't count on MGS4 itself heading to another system any time soon - indeed, like MGS3 perhaps even never.

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To be quite honest if I was ever offered a free Wii or PS3 I would actually take the Wii as at least I know it would get some use and my wife would use it and my son could in a year or two. That's a pretty insulting truth to the PS3...

Everything I've read suggests the opposite; that the Wii is being treated as a fad, something the consumer buys and soon forgets about. Particularly with hardcore gamers brought in by the Nintendo brand. The Wii is the likely the most popular console by virtue of its gimmickry, cross-over appeal and lower price point. Not to say there aren't some good games on there but it smells of Apple.

Most of those titles you said interest me none. Even more so titles like LittleBigPlanet which I honestly can't understand the hype about. The fact that you even list things like SingStar not only frighten me but makes the PS3 even more unattractive to me if that's one of the games that you feel you must point out.

I have to be honest most of those games don't interest me even slightly. While of course some of them I would give a try and even if they were great games its not reason enough to get the PS3 at this time. If got a PS3 today I'm sure I would spend much more time on it on games that are non exclusive titles so what would be the point in going with the PS3? Also titles that were expect to be PS3 exclusives are now becoming multi-platform. If the PS3 was priced under the 360 I could see myself tempted to get one if I wanted to get a console. But its the complete opposite and I understand that the PS3 costs Sony allot and they are taking a complete loss with every single one made so I certainly don't expect them to slash the price.

But Sony needs to really rethink things because with the other consoles outselling is only going to lead to would be exclusives to stray off because publishers will know that the sales on the 360 or perhaps even the Wii will out do any deal that Sony is going to throw at them. Now where is the PS3 going to appeal to anyone when good exclusive titles are even more rare than now and the console costs double? If Sony doesn't do anything this is indeed a possible scenario and may knock them out of the console wars for good because who the hell would trust their next console?

Maybe you really are since you don't have any counter arguments. I used to be a PC gamer for about 13 years, then about 4 years ago I bought a PS2. I wasn't charmed by it, but still, it was great fun. After I bought Xbox 360 and PS3 everything shifted, and now I almost never play on my PC, and my rig is really not bad. The last game I've finished on my PC was Crysis: Warhead. Other than that I always play on consoles. Good gaming platform is not the one with biggest pixel count (you probably think so judging by your posts) it's the one that plays your games without any additional hastle. I just pop in a game, turn on my TV, sit comfortably on my sofa and enjoy. I don't care about patches, drivers, systems, codecs, modding ini files to make it run properly etc - I don't need a tad better looking graphics to enjoy a game. PC can be a good gaming platform, but it's not the best one at the moment.

I can play comfortably on both: Xbox 360 and PS3, and with the later one I get more than just a good gaming console.

@me7 - Sony's policy is really flawed with PS3, but on the other hand developers will finally get the hang of the hardware - exclusives show it has potential, probably bigger than X360. As for multiplatorm games, they do tend to look better on X360, but the main factor after its popularity is not a little bit better graphics, but the fact that you can play everything for free. PS3 would have been a much popular machine if it had been cracked. You get a better piece of hardware for your buck when you buy PS3 - just like dezztroy said:

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The PS3 isn't that overpriced. You get a perfectly good gaming console, a blue-ray player, and more.

I only meant the number of Xbox 360 sold, not the games, or the fact that M$ earns more. There are ofcourse many more factors why X360 is so popular, but the fact that you can play for free is certainly one of the biggest ones, atleast in my country. Here ppl buy X360 mainly because they don't have pay for games. It makes a hell of an impact on the number of Xbox 360 sold.

And about the number of games sold, you really should read a little more. Wii has the best selling games, and recent reports show that PS3 sells more than Xbox 360, at least some major companies say so.

http://gamer.blorge.com/2008/10/26/analysis-ps3-selling-more-games-than-xbox-360-with-smaller-install-base/

Maybe the cause is that ppl that own Xbox 360 have more downloaded games than the originals ?

That article is totally bogus. The editor picks the publishers he wants and ignores many others. They're also half-year numbers, when releases like EA's L4D, Mirrors Edge, Dead Space, and Madden were not yet released. Every month of the last year, sales of X360 games are larger than PS3 games. Sometimes as much as 3x as many sales for the same game, such as World at War last month.

Latest NPD numbers, November: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56331
Attach Rates as of Oct 22: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20713

The top two sellers last month were X360 games. For at least the past 6 months (as far as I looked back), the #1 game in the NPD top 10 is a X360 game. Yes, the Wii has sold more games this year, but it also holds a commanding lead in consoles sold (mostly to abnormal demographics like my mother). In spite of the Wii outselling the 360 over 2:1, the 360 consistently has the #1 game every month.

I guess will have to wait for the end of the year results.Those charts are well prepered, but I wonder how many of the units sold are premiere editions, and not re-editions and stuff like that. Xbox 360 is longer on the market than Wii and PS3, therefore has more older, cheaper games which give publishers less money but atract more customers.

All in all, the charts won't change the fact, that lots of ppl owning Xbox 360 don't even have one oryginal game, if they did the sales would be much higher. Maybe PS3 owners don't have games too, but then they don't have any games at all.

Shut up