PS3 - 360; and the gap shortens....

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BengaBenga said:

Fei-Hung said:

Price drop on one console, more for same cost on another. Plenty of Exclusives and 3rd party games, rumors and fables, hype and more hype, tit for tat and this is the story of the 360 and PS3. 

IMO it won't be this year, but next year that Sony catches up and takes over. I don't see Sony losing momentum at the moment. Looks like the swap over from 360 to PS3 has begun.

I have spoken to several people who bought the 360 as a time pass console until the ps3 was released. Some stuck by the 360 until PS3 had more games and then changed over, the others stood by and awaited a price drop whilst some others waited for blu ray to be the format winner before they purchased a PS3. It seems everyday, more of these former PS2 owners are given reason to change over. If Sony announce another price drop, it will be all over for the 360. They will come in 3rd place this generation. It's just a matter of time.

 

You act like it will be an incredible achievement if PS3 will overtake the 360. At the current pace that won't be in the first half of 2009. 
If you see it perspective you'll see that last gen the PS2 outsold the 360 by 100 million units and all of a sudden you're saying that passing the 360 2.5 years in the PS3's life is a major accomplishment. That's fanboy talk.

Microsoft doesn't really care about that 3rd place (of course they wouldn't mind winning). Their Entertainment Division is profitable and they have acquired an excellent position for their next Xbox. In this gen they achieved incredible stuff: GTA, RE, DMC and now even FF are now all on their machine. The 360 is a success for Microsoft.

Sony is a totally different story. They lose loads of money, the lost almost all exclusives bare MGS and will be in a much weaker position for the PS4. Sure the PS3 will come in second, no doubt about that, but they've lost an aweful lot this gen.

 

 The Xbox is NOT profitable. Read their financials.  The division it is in, which includes, Age of Empires, Zine, Mice, keyboards, etc is barely profitable. The more Xbox they sell, the LESS money the division makes.  Xbox is not in a happy place right now.  It has only been a success at fracturing a market and damaging competitors. Financially, it is still a loser.

And having to buy all those exlusives is setting them up for (financial)  failure next round. They paid 50M for GTAIV. We don't know what they paid for FFXIII, but the trend has been set: MSFT will have to PAY for every blockbuster game from now on.Sony gets GTA, FFXIII free, MSFT pays. Tough for MSFT to come out ahead in that scenario.