1.8 million PS3, 1.8 million PSP units sold from April-June

@Mr Hett

So how many will you be buying next month?

Price drop announcement is coming at Gamescom Aug 17th.

I have a 60gb fatty that I been using less and less lately because I'm afraid the bluray drive is dying. I'll be giving it to my father since he plays videogames like once a month. So I'm gonna get a slim for myself as soon as the price drops. Unfortunately my sister has quite a collection of PS3 games and uses the fatty very often, so I'll have to get her a PS3. My cousin is low on funds and we play on Xbox live all the time, but my 360 usage has gone down significantly, so I'm gonna get him a PS3 this fall. So 3 total.

Oh, I don't live with either of my parents so I'll have my own PS3. My fatty used to stay at my mother's house, where my sister lives, but now it's at my father's house. And yes, that means I only played my PS3 when I went back to my mothers house. I've been a PC/360 guy for a few months and I miss those dualshock controllers. Hope that clarifies things a bit.

@Mr Hett

Awesome, I just got a new PS3 on special at Amazon (Black Ops unit with $50 credit, it was pretty much $200 PS) to replace my current 120GB model which I sold on eBay together with black ops)

I may have to pick up another unit and some type of TV for the bedroom so that my wife and I can play games at the same time, maybe even some co-op action with Uncharted 3 in November.

@Tihn Theres not much on the PSN to get over the 360 either though.

@Tihn

Agreed. I love PSP but Sony has not shown it any love recently.

@Tihn well psp have a good games on it they don't have to be new to attract new people to platform. My friend recently got PSP when i told him that there is a load of very good j-rpgs for it. But yeah not much is coming in future i reckon it's because Vita is coming and it sony concentrating on it.

@Tihn PSP has been selling for years with a horrible game library

This Feb and March it got a few good games

@Vuvuzelas
the library isn't terrible, but it could have been much better. I'm really hoping they get some solid things out on the PSV.

@DevilSei
3DS needs full support from both Nintendo and third party devs/publishers if they want to ensure a full foothold before PS VITA comes out; in the same manner they had with the DS vs PSP. Nintendo's a great company of both software and hardware... but this slack-ass piece mealing of features that should be standard by now, is just shameful.

Nintendo needs to integrate their damn points system already, too. It's ridiculous that you can't use the same points from the Wii upon the DS and vice versa. It makes me wonder if the Wii U will have its own price point system too.
Then, they need to integrate the Virtual Console library as much as functionally possible. Obviously, there's N64 games that might require more tweaking but having seen some of the "remakes" they're throwing out instead, it can't be that difficult to remap.
Lastly, the online scene is absolutely deplorable in comparison to the competition. I'm told the Wii U will change that, but let's be honest here... they said the same about the Wii. So hopes aren't high for any of this. I really would like to see a more heated rivalry in terms of quality features and games between Nintendo and Sony; almost in the way of SEGA and Nintendo in the 90s. At least then, we'd see some more stellar stuff coming from either company.

@Therion I agree with your comment. I'm getting a bit sick and tired of the practices this gen also. If the next-gen gets even worse with DLC, DRM, etc. I may have to go back to older gens, I've wanted to play some older gems anyways.

@Therion

You got some great points there, but you also missed few things.

I am actually a fan of DLC, sure you have to pay bit extra for it since it adds value to your game and it is not as if people that work for your Game Developer work for free.

There is not way to eliminate all the bugs no matter how great your QA team is, I work in QA and while many of the bugs are documented (some don't get fixed because limited resources or lower priority) it would take years to go through every possible scenario.

Now if I can get a fix for old bug through Title Update that is awesome (just look at Uncharted 2, probably one of the greatest titles of this generation).

I think PS3 is just starting to hit the strides, we price drop to $199 it will dominate the market until next gen consoles get their hold on the market, which may take 2-3 years from now. I think PS3 will hit 100 million consoles 4 years from now.

@Therion You never had problems?

Lucky

@nerdydesi1

Why would you be upset about DRM if you bught genuine product you are all set, but I can understand that it would be upsetting if you lost your internet connection and still wanted to play your game, some games require NON STOP internet connection, that really sucks.

@Therion I gotta admit you have a very strong points .... The PS2 was (and still) a great console.... I dare anyone to say his current Gen console has never broken down....also: your last point about the dlc ...So true

@pickupdoctor

That isn't the only version of DRM though. You got versions that boot you out of the game without saving just because your connection hiccuped. Then you got versions that only let you install it X numbers of limited times, and whether or not they "refund" it after uninstalling is irrelevant. Then of course there is the phantom software associated with it that you have to go out of your way just to remove even after uninstalling the game it came with.

Just because you bought the "Genuine" version doesn't mean it doesn't affect you. Hell, a "genuine" buyer might as well pay for the game then throw it away, downloading a cracked version of it that doesn't come with all the annoyances of the DRM.

@solidsnake8282

I have a fat PS3 and a launch generation Xbox360 and Wii and have had no issues with any of them.

I had to replace the laser on my PS2, but other than that it's been a champ.

@kcswanko

I'm looking to buy some cheap DS games. That system needs the touch of my greasy digits.

@whatisdelicious

Tell that to Nintendo

@whatisdelicious One is a handheld, one isn't.

@whatisdelicious

Did you read the article above, SONY is forcasting that they will sell 15 million PS3 this fiscal year.

Last fiscal year they sold only 14.3 million and their sales for Q1 in 2011 vs Q1 in 2010 are (600 k) that is 2.4 million vs 1.8 million. That is 25% drop in sales.

Now if sales continue to drop like that at current price $299 then SONY will only sell: 10.725 million units this fiscal year (14.3 million times .75 because their sales are 25% lower in Q1 so far and this is best case scenario) but they are predicting that they will sell 15 million.

Only way they can achieve 15 million this fiscal year is if they drop the price of PS3 to $199. Case closed.

@pickupdoctor Yeah, I saw that, but you're predicting a $100 price drop. Or a $150 price drop for the 320GB system. That's crazy. That's insane. There's no way they're doing that. I think Sony is just hoping that all the games this holiday season will spur people to buy more PS3s. I think they're feeling pretty good, noticing that Wii sales are down finally.

If they're going to do any price drop, it'll probably be a smaller one, like to $279 or something along those lines. Like I said, I don't think Sony is willing to jeopardize Vita's launch by making it look overpriced in comparison to the PS3, or the now-$170 3DS.

@pickupdoctor

You have to realize that drop on sales wasn't because of the price or games. What really hurted the sales was the PSN down for nearly a month.

@Cavall

Doesn't look like it from these numbers.

@Ordeith
Your comment makes no sense. There is no other system listed here to tell "by these numbers".

Playstation is outselling the others this year. Its still playing catch up but it is catching up quickly.

What exactly were you looking at to tell you otherwise?

@Vizruy
Why would you buy one if you barely use it?
GTFO troll

@Mustang Fanboy
I'm a troll because im upset that my $600 system,is broken? (I boughtit at launch, 60gb backwards compatible)
Gtfo, this was my uncharted machine and bluray player (over 30 now)
Look me up, moron (PSN: vizruy). You'll see that I actually owned e machine, a-hole.

@Vizruy

He was asking why you'd buy another one if you, "barely used the piece of sh!t," as you put it.

How you'd burn out a device that you "barely use" is beyond me.

@Chareth Cutestory
My blu ray collection, Uncharted 3.

I'm pissed that it broke.

@Vizruy
Oh. I watched Netflix on it, and blu rays.
No prolonged gaming,though. Except for Uncharted and some lbp.

@Mustang Fanboy

1.7 million last quarter, the Kinect helped moved a lot of consoles but they've never been able to break into Japan like the PS3.

@Raffi256 Since the 360 sales keep increasing, Microsoft is also forecasting that they will sell more consoles worldwide for the entire year than either Wii or PS3.

@rahnyc4
I doubt japan bought over 1.5 million PSPs in 3a months.

@liquidsoap89

That was supposed to be a reply to rahnyc4.