Sony Promises 1M PS3s This Year

Joystiq reports that Sony is still promising 1 Million PS3 units in North America for this year. This, despite much lower estimates as released yesterday. From the article: "basically, these numbers don't mean anything. Despite what appears to be gross incompetence to much of the gaming press and the hardcore industry watchers (that's you guys), the mainstream gamer is blissfully unaware of reductions in shipping estimates. To him, it will appear that the PS3 is the hottest thing this holiday -- just like the Xbox 360 appeared to be last year and the PlayStation 2 back in '00 -- and may have no problem waiting for the demand and/or price to go down. People are still buying PS2s today, remember? Just a reality check before the hype consumes us all." For more on this, 1up has analyst reaction to the release news, and comments from GTA creator Dave Jones on his reaction to the news.

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Re:PS3 will be Sony's Dreamcast

[MikeFM]

The PS3 is the Lexus while the XBox 360 is a Scion and the Wii is a Toyota Civic. All have their markets and are decent products for the price they're available for. All of them sell well and are profitable. Any market has this stratification.

The PS3 is nothing like the Dreamcast. The DC was fine but had bad timing, a lack of features, and a lack of games to let it stand up against the competition. If anything the Wii is at risk of becoming the next Dreamcast. The PS3 is pimped out and has the huge legacy library of PS games available for it.

I won't buy a Wii or 360 until they hit the bargin rack, the same thing I waited for with the Dreamcast and GameCube, but I'll buy the PS3 at release regardless to the price. It's all part of getting the most pimped out toy to mess with and I can excuse it because it'll let me give my PS2 to my younger siblings while still having full access to play my existing game library.

I doubt many parents will bother buying their children a PS3 but does Sony care? These are the people who don't buy enough games and add-ons to make back the loss Sony has on every console they sell. The people who will buy the PS3 are the people likely to buy a lot of extra toys so Sony is pretty sure about making back any loss from the actual sale of the console. The PS3 price of $700 really doesn't make much difference to me. I spend that much on toys every month anyway.