2009 will be Sony’s year, supposedly. Screen Digest has noted that the general decline in Japanese Wii sales during the past two months means that Nintendo will have a tough time maintaining its momentum in the home country through next year, while sales of the PlayStation 3 will finally pick up some steam. They initially thought that the PS3 would have sold better in 2008, but cited Sony’s insistence on keeping prices higher to reach profitability sooner as the reason for lack of successful sales. A series of price drops and quality games could make 2009 the breakthrough year for Sony.

Of course, to soften this prediction up a little, we could take a gander back to February of last year, when Screen Digest predicted the Wii to be in a distant third place by 2010. They’ve also predicted that it will take the DS until the end of 2011 to reach 112 million units sold (which it will do in 2009), and that the Wii’s lead would begin to severely diminish in 2008. Makes you think about Screen Digest a little, hm?

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