Instead of lowering the price of the PS3 (Sony is losing like $100-200 [lets say 150] on each PS3 x 3 million [give or take] = 450,000,000 in losses so far from the PS3 console). What Sony should be doing instead is what Microsoft is buying out the major developers for their exclusives. As long as there are great games for a console, people will dish out the cash for it, without the games no one will buy the console, no matter how cheap the thing maybe. Perhaps Sony's business big wigs are totally oblivious to the things that really matter to gamers.

Lets just say Sony dishes out 10-15 million for each "top class" developer, i.e. Valve (HL2 Orange Box), Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed), RockStar (GTA 4), Konami (MGS 4 => which might go multi console now), Square Enix (FF XIII => future unknown due to slow moving PS3 sales), Epic Games (Gears of War & UT3). If Sony were able to acquire the exclusive (as in, it ain't on the 360) on that caliber of games on its console, people would flock to buy its system regardless if it were 599 or 499. The situation however is the reverse, not only does Microsoft pay out handsomely to developers that make exclusives for it $50 mil to Rockstar to add new exclusive content for it for GTA 4 (*which is probably more than they [Rockstar] would make from just selling the game itself), speaks as to the extent at which Microsoft is willing to go to screw Sony over this console generation.

PS3 is a great console, there is no denying that. In fact, the system itself is in many ways it is superior to the 360. However from a gamer's standpoint, its higher cost and lack of exclusive games will definitely end Sony's dominance in gaming.

Sony will win the Bluray vs HDDVD war, but the cost is the demise of its gaming division, which in my opinion is totally not worth it, as the Playstation series has been one of the greatest assets to Sony.

It seems like a great number of Xbox 360 owners have had experience "with broken 360s":

Current number of people polled (as of the writing of this message [Poll Question: "Has your Xbox 360 failed?"]):

15805

> Total polled with relevance to Xbox 360: 11560

PPLs with xbox 360s broken 1 or more times: 5156

==> 44.6% of the Xbox360 owners have had the "experience" of having to bring your 360 back to Microsoft to be replaced or fixed. Is it just me or is there something REALLY wrong here? Microsoft really needs to get better QC on their consoles.

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What's wrong with Supreme Commander?

1. It tries to be a sequel to a game that is a decade old, without more tricks up they're sleaves

2. People want actual action, not a micromanaging grind fest.

3. Having skirmishes online that lasts for hours => bad idea, no one has the time to spend 3-4 hours trying to defeat some other dude.

4. Too much going on. The scale of the Supreme Commander is just too large compared to some of the other RTSs.

5. Graphics isn't up to snuff.

6. With more and more ingenius RTSs like Company of Heroes out, the mechanics from Total Annhilation's era just won't cut it.

7. The interfaces => bad. It doesn't look good, and it can sometimes get in the way.

Total Annhilation was an awesome game, while Supreme Commander is a good game. It is just that there have been so many changes in the RTS development (Relic being one of the biggest reasons) since TA that gamers just aren't as easily amused.

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