Well this week’s Hep C injection didn’t go anywhere near as disasterous as last week’s. This week the injection site didn’t bruise at all, compared with last week’s gameboy size bruise, I’m quite pleased. I didn’t have hot or cold flashes, I felt a little achey but no where near as bad as last week. And I was still a little drowsy and didn’t feel like goin out much. I think taking the medication a couple hours earlier in the night helped a lot, I think I’m going to bring it back another hour especially with school coming up. My hope is that the very worst of it will be gone by the time class starts, I doubt that’ll happen but anything I can do to help is worth my while.
I went to target last night to get some stuff and while I was there I decided to check out Wii stuff. Still no controllers or nunchuckus, but they still had ample supply of games. While I was lookin in the area I decided to go over to the PS3 section because I had heard that PS3 were beginning to be readily available. Sure enough, Target had 2 of the expensive, and 1 of the cheaper PS3s on display (who knows if there were more in the back, it didn’t seem like their shelf could hold much more than that). I can’t imagine Sony thinking the PS3 has been a success. They have sold almost a quarter of what Wii has sold in less time. Meanwhile, people are still waiting in line for the Wii and the PS3 is gathering dust on the shelf. If this continues, Sony is going to have to enter into a price war and start slashing the price of the console like there is no tomorrow. This will become even more dire if rumors are true and Microsoft puts out a 120GB version of the 360 at the same price the premium currently sits at as the main advantage the PS3 has had thus far is that it has a bigger hard drive, which this will totally nullify.
Sony is in trouble.
And honestly I don’t even think Microsoft is in a great place looking at continuing crappy numbers in Japan. In a little more than a year Microsoft has sold more than 10 million units, which is great for them, however I’d be shocked if they sold much more than 1 million in Japan which is dismal. After just 2 and a half months, Nintendo has almost sold 4 million units, and gaining fast. Nintendo’s only limitation is getting the units out and they are putting them out faster than Sony or Microsoft could do combined. If Nintendo continues to have these strong sales, Nintendo should easily eclipse Microsoft as console leader by the end of the year. This is especially true when you consider the software that Nintendo is likely to put out this year. I expect Super Smash Bros., Brain Training, Mario, and Metroid. These franchises I think are really going to push the numbers of Nintendo quite a bit, they are 4 of Nintendo’s strongest franchises, their 5th already being out on the Wii with Zelda, and their 6th never has worked on a console. Although I totally expect the Pokemon fighting game for Pearl/Diamond this year as well. (I’ve heard that it is the best version to date of the fighting game but that game hasn’t traditionally done will in the US, even when the Pokemon franchise was at its height.)
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I put the Wii on my Christmas wish list, but told my wife she could not spend a penny over suggested retail price for it if she found one. Even her amazing shopping ability was stymied trying to get a Wii.
On the other hand, she told me that on at least three occasions, during the height of the shopping season, she could have picked up a PS3. And as you point out, today, getting a PS3, not a problem in the least.
Sony is in trouble unless they get an exclusive, must-have game for the system. None of the launch titles even come close to that.
I think the closest must-have game they will have that I can see coming is Gran Turismo (which doesn’t appear to be coming this year) or that Warhawk or whatever that game is. Though honestly, that game has lost a ton of steam from its first showing at E3 two years ago. I don’t think it’ll draw the crowds that people once thought it would. GT is another story, it has always drawn crowds. However, like I said it is at least 2 years away and by that time, Konami (who I think does that game) could easily switch it to the 360. Sony has already lost a lot of really big exclusives for this generation that has made it in the past, such as GTA. Square is starting to move out into other platforms more now as well. I think Sony made a really large mistake not delaying God of War 2 and the last FF game for 6 months to be PS3 games. These two games would have made the PS3 a must have, even if the graphics were subpar to what the system could do. I mean look how much Zelda has helped the Wii, even though it is likely not even half as graphically powerful it could have been had it just been made for the Wii from the start. People use that game as an example of how weak Wii graphics are, but it is a gamecube game, and actually not bad graphics if you think of it in that way… still one of the stronger selling titles of the Christmas season last year for all consoles probably stateside (though I am more than a little amazed at how poorly Zelda sold in Japan).