And since the official numbers are expected to be released tomorrow, we don’t have long to wait to find out if Microsoft is right.

“The PS3 is a third player, they are at risk of reaching a single digit market share,” Greenberg added. “They are a premium priced product in a tough economic time. They have a tough position to try and sell a product… The window of time when they were the cheapest Blu-ray player, those days have passed now.”

Greenberg claims that the key to success in a three console market is to differentiate your console, something he believes Microsoft has acomplish while Sony has not.

“The type of experience we are delivering is very different than the Wii,” he said. Microsoft and Nintendo “are both doing really well delivering our different experiences. I think the problem that the PS3 is running into is that they are trying to deliver the same experience (as the Xbox 360) at twice the price.”

Greenberg believes Sony is floundering, and places the blame for that squarely on the shoulders of Blu-ray.

Sony “has made a very expensive product built on the promise of Blu-ray,” he said. “That hasn’t worked out for them. Blu-ray is clearly not the next DVD.”

And while Greenberg acknowledges the successes of the Nintendo Wii console , he does not view Nintendo’s console as a threat to the Xbox 360.

“We see a lot of data that households are buying the Wii60,” Greenberg said. “But at the end of the day Xbox is where they spend the bulk of time. They want entertainment, Netflix, movies, games.”

“We think those consumers (Wii owners) will want to upgrade.”

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Here is the trailer for Lord of the Rings: Conquest that was just been released by Pandemic Studios. The game offers  unique gameplay that was never before seen in a Lord of the Rings title. Lord of the Rings: Conquest video game will be released on January 13th, 2009 for the Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, DS, and PC.

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