The US and Japan market is the majority of the market, but it isn’t the whole market. And unfortunately it skews the perception in the media significantly when there is so much regional differences.

Or we get those completely ludicrous stories such as ‘xbox 1 million in front in these 5 specific european countries’. Ahuh. Well I guess these days you don’t even have to hide how you’re skewing the numbers for people to take them seriously.

People are probably using the PSP more for what Sony designed it for – more than just a games machine. Well, and piracy is probably pretty rife. It’s just they’re using bittorrent to get their movies rather than buying discs. So there’s probably more than game piracy to the relatively low software sales.

The price seems high, but it is younger than than everyone else still, and I guess Sony are making the money and selling the units they had planned to. Panic price cuts would be a more serious sign of problems – that MS needed them, and Sony are still ‘executing’ on their long-term plans says more for MS’s entertainment division than it does for Sony’s.

Piracy of PSP games is the easiest thing since Dreamcast. Anytime people can steal your games through software tampering and not having to use hardware modifications you’re going to have a problem. Sony still benefits from profit of hardware sales but it becomes a bit of a challenge for a software only company (third parties) to invest effort into products that can be easily stolen.

And yeah old news but PS3 needs a price cut. People aren’t going to spend $400 to $500 on a game system in this economy and Blu-Ray player prices have gotten more reasonable since HD-DVD bought the farm. But considering how thick headed they have been on pricing and B/C I don’t expect much to change.

I don’t think the lead is so big when you put into account 3RLs and repurchases because of Live bans.

Post price-cut sales spikes are normal. Sure the 360 has outsold the PS3 in Europe since the price cut, but overall in 2008, I suspect PS3 is far ahead, and still holds a cumulative lead in Europe.