@Smashchu2
You're quoting me, answering someone else, not answering to anything I wrote.
As for the death spiral and MS vs Sony? MS have done what they could with their money. They bought additional contents and exclusives, they launched early and went for a cheaper machine. They marketed heavily. They supported HD-DVD. The result? Sony was hurt. How could they not, coming from a generation of total dominance and having MS against them?
But many franchises that were PS2 exclusives are now multiplatforms, and still they sell more relatively on PS3 than on 360, when not in absolute terms. And the PS3 came into the game late and still is overtracking the 360, selling substantially in line with it during economic times that are about the worst imaginable for its pricing model, and still has equal stance in the eyes of the developers.
So if it hasn't happened yet, when is the death by hand of MS going to happen exactly? The marketshare progression of the last 3 years doesn't exactly show a vanishing Sony.
