I know this is the PS3 board, but a lot of you people are fanboys, and you don't have a clue how to look at the numbers available correctly. You can't just look at raw numbers and say "It's the same as this and that's the same as this one" and not look at the underlying facts.Â
 Last spring, the 360 didn't put up smallish numbers because it wasn't popular, it put them up because you couldn't find one anywhere, I know because I waited for 4 months for them to be instock in stores around my area. It was like that all over, that is what kept down 360 numbers during the same period. The PS3 on the other hand is overstocked to hell, you can go anwhere around my area and find stacks of them at Best Buy or any store that sells gaming equipment, stores are getting desperate in fact to move them, by offering free controllers or other discounts, I sold my first PS3 and when I went back to buy a new one to replace it, I got a free HDMI cable and a free second Sixaxis, because the store couldn't give them away. Plus we know for a fact that there are roughly 2 million units that Sony have shipped, but that are either sitting in warehouses or on store shelves not being bought by consumers. That is why there is so much concern from analysts and people, not purely based on numbers.Â
 You also have to look at the brand recognition and install base from last gen, PS2 had something like a 3 to 1 margin or more over Xbox, and an even greater margin over Gamecube, those numbers may not mean much to you and me, but they mean a ton to Sony and to the industry as far as early adopters and expected hardware sales within the first so much time. The companies expect so much of a percentage of thier previous generation install base to buy in to the new one within the first 6 months or so.  Wii is dominating in that area, with a huge percentage, 360 did well with like 12 percent or something, but Sony has only managed like 2 or 3 percent, and it's a big reason why they have 2 million units backed up, and that screws up thier production and updating lines, and creates all kinds of nightmares, another reason why people are gloomy on it.Â
 The last big thing, is the present and near future. The launch in NA and Europe was always going to be good, numbers wise for Sony, that was a given, with the huge buzz and install base of Sony as a gaming giant, but look at the last few months, it's like the system launched, and immediately started to stall, yeah there are no games, but either does the Wii have any decent titles, and it's out of control so stop blaming everything on that alone. March sucked, but April was abysmal, it's the technological leader, it's the market leader, and the thing isn't even 6 months old, and it's an also ran in terms of sales. The Wii is outselling it 4 or 5 to 1 in the US and Europe, it's outselling it by between 7 and 9 to 1 most months in Japan. The 360 is outselling it by more than 2 to 1 in the US, and there are no supply shortages for the PS3, there is no reason, the Wii and 360 have more supply shortage issues than the PS3, just read any market anaysis.Â
 These are all very good reasons of why people say the PS3 is not selling well, and proof that it isn't. You cannot just look at overall numbers over a short period of time and not take the whole picture into the equation, and the crys of from Dev's for a price cut and the high publicity losses of exclusives are only further signs of where the sales figures really are. I love the PS3 as much as anyone, but I'm not some blind fanboy that just wants to put spin on the true state of the matter so it sounds like everything is sweet and nifty in Sony land. If you want to discuss the topic, than atleast be grown up enough to see that there is more to the situation than launch figures.
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