It's a slow Monday, so what the heck, let's get some more PS3 doom mongering going on.

Over at Next Generation, DFC Intelligence' s David Cole is wondering the fate of the PS3 in relation to its many much publicized launch blunders. The short of it?

While it has always been clear that Sony's dominant market share was destined to decline, there now appears to be the distinct possibility the PlayStation 3 could end up third in market share behind both the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.

Why?

Sony has done very little to justify why the system is worth a premium price for consumers that don't care about raw hardware performance and are not hard-core audio/visual consumers. Unfortunately we believe that represents over 90% of the consumers in the marketplace.

I'd personally argue that the PS3 has done very little to justify the premium price even to customers who are hard-core audio/visual consumers. Atfer all, nothing we've seen so far looks noticably that much better than the 360. Florian Eckhardt

PS3 'Could Come Third' in Console Battle [Next Generation]

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