It wasn't the price that kept Sony from 1st place but because the didn't have things in order with the playstation launch. People was paying good money for the Nintendo Wii on Ebay for like the first two years. Then on top of that I think it was IGN or GameInformer that showed on the front cover thrown tomatoes on the Playstation for not having games. And before that at 2006 E3 when Sony showed the boomerang controller and got Fanboys from everywhere up tight. Then they tried to compete with Nintendo with motion controls and it working with the sixaxis and had no rumble. It look so much better as a console than it did then.