what does sony need to do

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#1 patrickjw333
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to get the momentum back in there favor only 130k units sold last month and negative publicity left and right what needs to be done.
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#2 acidBURN1942
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This holiday season. Sony isn't in any trouble at all.
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#3 Eclipse83Lives
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Nothing. Stay on the long development cycles their on now, for 4 star games latter. Dont rush any just because other companies do. Throw the people a nice little bone "Heavenly Sword" every so often. Than kill them with games people took time and patients with latter. Thats their plan as of now. Its a longer plan. But one that looks for games that have more time spent on them latter. Look at GTA 4 "a third party game." They had to delay, and have been on it forever. Why? Because its not a BS game. MGS 4 even longer, Killzone 2 "same thing." Titles you dont see like Afrika = super long development time. But im sure will see why after. Sony's not in it to throw you some online paintball every few months. They want to give more.
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#4 GARRYTH
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this

2007 that still needs to come out. this list is all exclusives. please injoy

1. folklore

2. uncharted

3. rachet and clank

4. eye of judgement

5. unreal 3 (time exclusive)

6. haze

7. nba 08

8. time crisis 4

9. star sing

10. wipeout hd

11. strangle hold (eclusive hard boil) i now it just a movie but still a good buy.

12. home (not a game but a free fun with trophies, movie theater, bowling, pool, chat ect.)

2008

1. infamous

2. killzone

3. little big planet

4. kretzky nhl

5. grad turismo 5

6. getaway

7. mgs 4

8. legendary the box

9. fifth phanton sega

10. final fantisy series (versus also)

11. hot shots golf 5

12. jak and dexter the lost frontier

13. free realms

14. the agency

15. zipper interative

16. white night story

17. wheel of fortune

18. wardevil

19. the game company game project #1, 2 and 3 means three more games

20. tekken 6

21. socom confrontation

22. rock star old west game

23. pain

24. la noire

25. yakuza 3

26. factor 5 project #2

27. eyetentity

28. eye days

29. dc universe

30. coded arms asault

lets not forgetcontract for3 exclusive from the god of war. nsoft in now making games.

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Bringing back the lesser priced sku would be key for sales growth this year imo. Other than that , I think they will be fine because the games will be there and they are working hard on improving online.
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#6 BigNiceJohn
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Smile. This holiday season. Sony isn't in any trouble at all.acidBURN1942

I edited it a bit. But still an excellent insightful post!

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I think Sony knows what their doing. They've had some trouble, yes but this is a huge company with some of the brightest minds in the industry. For anyone to think they know what sony should do is pretty big headed.
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#8 MGSFan27285
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Bringing back the lesser priced sku would be key for sales growth this year imo. Other than that , I think they will be fine because the games will be there and they are working hard on improving online.Nike_Air

yea a $400 SKU with wifi would really make microsoft cringe. i mean they dont have wifi, you have to buy a seperate $100 add-on for it. but if they were to do that, sales would soar. take what you get inside the 80gig(no emo chip...haha, emo) and make a 40 gig one for just $400, leave out the chip reading stuff that the 60gig had over the 20gig though.

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#9 graze81
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Just lower the price. Lets not forget that the "heavy hitters" like FF, MGS, God of War and GT haven't come out yet, those are usually Sony system sellers. With those games and a lower price point, they should sell.
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#10 BigNiceJohn
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Just lower the price. Lets not forget that the "heavy hitters" like FF, MGS, God of War and GT haven't come out yet, those are usually Sony system sellers. With those games and a lower price point, they should sell.graze81

Heck, with games like that, a price drop isn't even necessary.

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#11 graze81
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[QUOTE="graze81"]Just lower the price. Lets not forget that the "heavy hitters" like FF, MGS, God of War and GT haven't come out yet, those are usually Sony system sellers. With those games and a lower price point, they should sell.BigNiceJohn

Heck, with games like that, a price drop isn't even necessary.

It might be. People stillview the PS3 as too "expensive". If the rumor of a 40GB at $399 is true, the user base will go up by tons.

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Sony is doing everything right with what they have to work with. The PS3 is the best machine and it costs more to make, but it will also have the longest life span. Can you honestly see MS supporting the X360 five years from now? What about Wii? This season is important to Sony, but I really think 08 is going to be critical, but by then Sony will have the games and manufacturing prices will have come down.

@Garryth Great list! Thanks

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1. get some games into the market

2. drop the price

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#15 carljohnson3456
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2008

1. infamous

2. killzone

3. little big planet

4. kretzky nhl

5. grad turismo 5

6. getaway

7. mgs 4

8. legendary the box

GARRYTH

Dude, are you sure Legendary the Box is a PS3 exclusive??? I've seen it in like three magazines and NO freaking magazine has said what platform it is on... where did you read it's an exclusive???

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More games and price drop. Those are almost certains in a systems lifespan. But the key will be what most have said. The heavy hitters are not even out yet. And one will start it. But many after will intensify it all the more. Intill they have big time games sitting next to each other. And granted a Haze or Ratchet will be ok. Even 3rd party Oblivion type games are ok. But their are big games. And then their are Huge games. MGS 4 Is already a Huge game. Killzone 2 could be. FF 13 is a Huge game threw the world. And you need a few of those to dominate.

One wont do it. Alot of good games is ok, but its those massive games that do it. So far we have not seen one massive Huge game for any new system, Halo will be the first. So its a way easier question to answer after the fact. How their percentages increase after just even one of those. Where does the PS3 stand after Killzone 2 and MGS4 are out side by side for a while. And how does that line it up for the FF impact? And thats not counting the games they don't have listed. New names, and Maybe Kratos, maybe a little mouse. Those are potential huge names. And they will come. The way I kinda look at it. Is if the PS3 can sell at all now. Its gonna sell a tun latter. I mean look at the PS3 now, and than look at what most know its going to be. Its almost as if the PS3 is still kinda beta now. Its a whole other story once it becomes set and in the mainstream.

Microsoft knows this. Thats why their trying to jam up so much now. And have these mega advertisement campaigns, and doing every little tiny dirty,, whatever they can now. Thats why they cam out early, despite how the machine was running, or if it was really ready. They knew they could not win a true side by side battle. And soon enough it will be side by side again. So Microsoft needs to jam as much as they can in now. Thats their tactic. If they really thought Sony was in trouble, they would not be everywhere worried about it.