Better legs? The 360 is still going strong and is a full year older!

Also, pretty much this entire generation after 2007 the PS3 and 360 have been the same price. The Core/Arcade cheaper 360 sku was never the big seller of the SKU's as apparent by a $280 average selling price when comparing the $199/299 models. That means 4 out of 5 360's purchased were the more expensive SKU's which were constantly set at the SAME PRICE as the PS3 SKU's. To match or even exceed the sales of your competitor when your prices are the virtually the same and your competitor even offers some additional hardware, now that's extraordinary and that's what the 360 has done this whole time.

Now, I will say if the $99 360 is just the 4GB arcade, it will have a much lesser affect than a $99 250GB 360 would. No matter what, though, it would put the sales back in line with the 360 outselling the PS3 consistently because the price points would finally be where they should have been a year or two ago. The 360 should have always maintained pricing that was drastically lower than the PS3, yet instead they matched pricing on their main SKU's the majority of their lifetimes.

In the end, it paid off for Microsoft in the form of great profits even during heavy R&D periods for their "NextBox". Where MS has made back all their money from the 360's initial losses and begun to dig into the original Xbox's losses, the PS3 still hasn't started fighting back the red ink.

Try going into a Best Buy, Walmart, or TRU store and seeing any kind of advertisement for that deal. I know I sure haven't seen one. Furthermore it's not available at all retailers and requires a credit check/2 year contract.

Not even remotely close to just strolling into a store and asking the clerk to grab you a $99 Xbox.

May I remind you that PS3 has had a $100 drop in 2009, with another $50 drop in 2011 with a slim redesign in 2012. 360 has had a price drop in 2008 with a slim redesign/peripheral in 2010. PS3 is the one dropping in price to maintain such sales. MS have waited until the last possible moments to price cut, getting as much profit as they could.

A $99 Xbox would outperofrm a $200 PS3, as statistically NA has a wide gap, mainland European sales are slightly below PS3 sales, UK favors 360, and Japan PS3 sales can't compensate (referring to Summer 07 and Fall 08, the two times 360 price dropped).

Superior or not will always be subjective. Always.

lol

It's an old promotion that at the time was pretty well advertized. Of course a no catch $99 system would do better, but it's somewhat already been tried.

No, it has not been tried. Not globally, not with every retailer, and its a hassle getting a credit check/ filling out forms as opposed to just walking into a store and buying it for $99 and thats it.

why buy a 360 now? I guess they might as well since the next xbox isn't backwards compatible.

Better legs was a poor statement - it has more momentum as this generation dies.

I don't care to debate model pricing. We don't differentiate between the arcade and pro models, so I'm not sure why you state that with any fortitude. PS3 has always had the more expensive base model.

I don't believe a price cut from either company will do much to prolong this generation. The amount of the price cut is irrelevant. 

Disagree.

Superiority can be measured objectively. Let's look at the facts at what you get from your basic models:

PS3- free online, bluray, plays games

360 - paid online, no bluray, plays games

Pretty clear.

Ask the 80k ppl weekly why.

let me ask you then...