[bigbrew @ Jul 7th 2007 5:20PM]

This is nice and all -- but Sony needs games for their system more than anything. Right now the PS3 is only a blu-ray player. I'll buy one when a must-have game that is exclusive to Sony comes out.

[Josef F @ Jul 7th 2007 6:59PM]

bigbrew: "I'll buy one when a must-have game that is exclusive to Sony comes out."

I agree, but make that *several* must-have games for me. There's no one game that I'm going to pay $500 to play.

[Big @ Jul 7th 2007 7:30PM]

You've got to give SONY props for pulling the ol' switcheroo on the gamers of the world.
They had me convinced that picking up a $600 PS3 was gonna allow me to play lots and lots of games that were suppossed to be superior to everything on Xbox360.

They had everyone lining up around stores for days waiting to drop their cash on the PS3. They had every blog site online talking about the PS3 - how hard it was to get one - and how great it was suppossed to be.

Months later, only now are we realizing that PS3 is a glorified video game system with no games to play.

games are being released so slowly for the system that when a single game comes out, it automaticaly goes to the top of PS3's charts by default - anyone see the new Nina Gaiden Sigma?

SONY's got all the money from all the stores who bought as many consoles as they could at $600 a piece ( 20GB is discontinued).

SONY gotcha.

[Grant @ Jul 7th 2007 7:53PM]

i completely agree with you and josef f, the PS3 needs games more than anything to sell.

people would pay $600, but they need to see something that is worth $600, and no great(barely even a handful of good) games after more than half a year (almost 3/4ths) is not going to move anything.

Unfortunately, the wii is in a similar situation, but since it has more mainstream appeal and a much lower entry cost, it is still able to ride on it's minimal games list. Hopefully nintendo will pick up the pace and break their console tradition of releasing 3 or 4 worthwhile(albeit great) games, or soon they might find themselves in a similar slump.

Sony brought this on themselves though, they ignored and assumed themselves impervious to market conditions and simple business practices since the PS2 was such a success. They decided to pull a Field of Dreams and assume "if we make it, people will buy it". This ignored the fact that in the PS2 era, they did not have competition (the original xbox was more of a market test than a serious competitior) and assumed that the xbox 360 would continue to hold a similar market share and not be a competitor again. They assumed they didn't need to be developer friendly. They assumed they could build an $800 machine and sell it for $600 and people would see it as a "bargain". In the mean time, xbox 360 took note of all these issues, and it is doing very well. The only thing that stopped the 360 from dominating this round is the fact that it has had such an issue with the 3-rings-of-death, but with the recent increase in warrenty, that should seriously smooth over that issue.

As for the PS3, i want one, i want one for $450 at the most, and i want good games to play on it. Until Sony can deliver that, i don't think even the most hardcore gamers that are console neutral will be able to cough up the cash for one.