I don't think that they jumped on the PS3 has no games bandwagon. They did, however, focus on the fact that Sony isn't holding on to their exclusives as much as they did in the past. MGS4 and Little Big Planet have been the PS3's biggest shining exclusive stars. The PS3 needs more than that.

Oh what the hell does the Wall Street Journal know!

Why are people hating on the PS3, I love mine, sure Sony has made a few mistakes, but who hasn't really? And I'm tired of people saying the PS3 has "no games", it has the same games as the 360 and a bunch of good exclusives. Why can't people just admit that they're both great consoles? Now the Wii on the other hand...it's just like the two's retarded little brother that gets all of the attention.

This year I have played my PS2 more than my PS3.

@Wtfrawl

I love my PS3 too, and personally think it's better than the 360. The problem is that Sony really botched up the launch of the system, and in addition to the fact that the console-selling titles are a little lacking, a lot of the time their updates don't concentrate on the gaming portion of the machine.

For example, instead of making an update to let us log into more than one profile at a time, or to let us use more than one headset simultaneously, they instead give us an update to add a pause button to the mini music player that no one uses anyway.

like most mass market entertainment, the best finishes last in terms of sales. goddamn shame, i love my PS3. I play my Xbox when I have to, (Castle Crashers, Braid, Left 4 Dead), and consider the Wii to be an overpriced piece of junk.

C'mon Sony get your shit together and market this beast correctly!!!

yeah God of War 2 definetely should have came out of PS3, seemed like a giant misstep for Sony. Did you see MS releasing any huge 1st party games for Xbox1 after Xbox2 came out?

@mix:

"The PS3 doesn't have as many good exclusives as the Xbox" is fanboy speak for "The PS3 has some exclusives that I can't play anyway, so instead of admitting that I might be missing out on some good games, I'll just bash them to make myself feel more comfortable with purchasing an Xbox, which is currently at Microsoft for repair". Yeah, that was a pretty long sentence.

I purchased the PS3 over the Xbox. The Xbox has some pretty good exclusives such as GoW 2 and Fable 2. But I'm not going to bash them simply because I can't play them (yet, I can always just wait for the PC version). Fanboys are funny like that.

I would argue that a good 90% of the time, the PS3 has //better// exclusives, but they just don't sell, which means people just straight-up don't know about them. People don't normally bring up Valkyria Chronicles, but I'd play that shit over Fable II or something everyday. The difference is purely that Valk only sold 10 copies, as compared to Fable's 10 million.

Is it even REMOTELY possible that the people in charge of making financial decisions at Sony have a better idea about what to charge for their machine than a bunch of internet commentators?

Last time I checked, the PS2, and PSP were both selling well, so there are your lower priced machines. The PS3 is a hisher-end machine and so it costs more. Why is that so hard to figure out? Because Microsoft killed the Xbox years before they should have and rushed out shoddy hardware? Should Sony cripple the PS3 by taking out the harddrive and then start selling a vastly overpriced harddrive as an add on? Should Sony force all its users to make fruity little cartoon characters just so they can play a game? Maybe Sony should make a HD-DVD add on drive?

It really is unfortunate that this is happening. There are comments like "Well I love my PS3" and such, but the article isn't about people who already own PS3s, it's about the poor sales and looking at why that might be the case. I'm not about to pin it on lack of exclusives, as there are quite a few games that would justify my reason to get a PS3 (WipEout, Warhawk, MGS4, LPB, Killzone 2, Resistance 2, Uncharted), there's just the issue of price. Sony made a big mistake by not cutting their price this holiday season, and as a result they were outsold by the wii (who didn't need a price cut) and the 360 (now that they have a SKU which makes it the least expensive to buy). I do want a PS3, but I'm not about to shell out 400 bucks to buy 7 games.

Once the price comes down, things'll be fine. The PS3 is not going anywhere.

also PSN is poop, that's why it's free. i don't mind paying $50/year for XBL because it blows away PSN in every way imaginable.

I disagree that PSN is poop. It owns Xbox Live in several ways. Free themes that are more than just wallpaper, a far more convenient pricing structure and free-to-play are all excellent plus points.

Unfortunately, it suffers from the same problem everything PS3-related. Sony isn't doing enough with it. The PSN itself is great. Sony's handling of it is not.

@ aaronf-
totally agree on the exclusives (at least the good ones)- most of the exclusives are available on pc as well at some point, so why buy a 360?

Howsabout this.

Numbers don't lie. The PS3's main customer to help regain new buisness and a bigger install base they need to cut the price on that console. 400 dollars is a xbox 360, a controller and a couple of games (maybe even wi-fi). At this point, with the wii's inovative and simple gameplay (and cheaper price) and the xbox 360 year head start and larger exclusives (and cheaper price....getting the theme here) it doesn't MATTER to the average fence-sitting customer about ps3 blu-ray player (which, most customers don't even know exist or CARE to know) or it's current exclusives. And the whole ps3 console is stronger in terms of graphics is now a moot point two times over (360 currently has slightly better looking versions and the wii doesn't need better looking games...just BETTER games).

Sony doesn't need to sell to intranet bloggers like us. We've already made a choice one way or another. They need to convince those wall street/post/sun etc parents or recession-felt customers. They need to know RIGHT NOW that if they plan to invest on anything more than 200 dollars then they'll get there monies worth RIGHT NOW.

I'll even help out the fanboys here. You mean to tell me, honestly and OBJECTIVELY, that if you went and made the 360 have the EXACT same amount of exclusives with the EXACT same amount of games but they keep their respect parts (built in blu-ray and wifi for ps3/ upgradablity for 360) and most importantly keep their price range...you mean to tell me you'd think ps3 could/should/would sell more than the 360??? In these times???

I don't expect the Wall Street Journal to know any "exclusives" past Mario, Gears of War, Street Fighter, and Sonic the Hedgehog.

I'm looking forward to the exclusive line-up of PS3 titles in 2009. What about the 360? Halo? Again? Halo: The RTS?

It's very cool and hip to slag off the PS3 these days. But I'm glad I got one only a few months ago.