Playstation.

So, apparently, Sony is going to drop the price on the Playstation 2 down to $99.99. Like my Playstation 3, my family bought my PS2 for me for Christmas for $399. In that article they mention that analysts have been calling for a price reduction on the PS3 for months, but Sony isn't budging. I think $399 is way too much for a system, and there would have been no way I would have bought it if my family hadn't gotten it for me. That's why I think that Onlive idea that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago will be the future of gaming. I love that the PS3 comes with a Blu Ray player, because I just bought a 58" Plasma TV, but I think you can wait a couple of months and catch a Blu Ray player on sale for $200. In a year, that could be their normal price. I dunno, I just think they'd sell a lot more if they'd lower the price. They're getting hammered by the Wii, and I think they're still losing out to the Xbox, so they need to do something, and I think lowering that initial cost would be a solution.

::UPDATE:: Here's another interesting article, the PS3 finally outsold the Wii in Japan for the month of March. Japan has always had an affinity for Nintendo, but Playstation has always done well there too. A lot of trends come out of Japan when it comes to video games and they're saying that the Wii's sales are starting to sag in the U.S. as well. The rest of the article is pretty interesting. It's saying that the Xbox and PS3 hold a higher market share, and developing a game for either console a pretty similar process, but you can't just simply port over a game to the Wii. And Rockband and Guitarhero account for about half of the game sales, so unless they come up with some other kind of series that is Wii-exlusive, I think their stranglehold on the market could shrink rather dramatically. I guess we'll have to wait to see what happens.