PS3 Japanese Estimates Down, No 360 Price Drop

There are unhappy gamers on a couple sides of the console wars today. IGN is reporting that Japan's allotment of 100,000 PS3 units will actually be more like 80,000. From that article: "The lack of digits in that number is even more staggering when you consider that the PS2 sold out of nearly a million units when it launched back in March of 2000. Having lived through a few weeks of attempting to obtain a PS3 pre-order, we're not too surprised by the lowered shipping numbers. Allocations disappeared quickly at online retailers that were brave enough to start pre-order programs. The online arm of media retailer Tsutaya ran out of units in 6 minutes according to Nikkei (it felt more like 1 minute to us)." Meanwhile, the Seattle PI reports that Microsoft has once again denied the possibility of a 360 price drop any time soon.

In other news...

[GammaKitsune]

Nintendo fans report feeling "alright" about the current turn of events. As one astutely commented, "Meh."

Wait for the good stuff.

[Crasty]

These guys can jockey for position all they want, I'm holding out for the Okama Gamesphere.