You got to hand it to Microsoft

[MightyGrogg]

Picko said:

Everstar said:

OK, many people at first were saying oh microsoft cuts the price and only out sells the PS3 by like 50k or something and only for a couple of weeks they were able to outsell it. Now we see that the 360 has been outselling it in others for quite sometime and the sales are icreasesing by a lot more then the PS3 right now.

So i got to say great job Microsoft =)

 

 

Microsoft has been lucky because the financial crisis and the resulting recessions (regardless of whether they have happened or happen) have made the 360 relatively more appealing than the PS3 than what would be the case during normal economic times. The price of the PS3, given current economic conditions, is an absolute killer and any price differential between it and the 360 is only magnified. To what extent they were aware of this I'm not sure, but its entirely possible that a good deal of their success against the PS3 over Christmas is the result of a little bit of luck.

 

I don't think it's luck. More like good strategy. M$ already had their price drops planned out in advance. The fact that the economy was bad at the same time didn't change their strategy. It's obvious their plan worked to perfection for this year. Even if the ecomony was great, I still think the 360 would have outsell the PS3 this year.