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XxXProphecyXxX said:

blizzid said:
A year ago Sony was outselling Microsoft in Europe nearly 2-to-1. For most of that year they were outselling Microsoft by at least 50%. Microsoft not only erased that sales gap, but now outsells Sony every week. Microsoft did this without taking significant financial losses; in fact, their gaming division is in better financial shape than Sony's. And despite all this, Microsoft is the one who should be disappointed? While Sony is the one who should be happy? What kind of twisted logic is that?

The price difference argument would be logical if the two consoles had similar manufacturing costs, but they don't. Sony screwed up their hardware design from the start, creating a console with manufacturing costs far greater than their projections indicated. They'll be paying the price for that mistake for the entire generation. Their competitors will always be able to undercut them.

Microsoft screwed up their hardware design too, of course (hello RRoD). Even if the reliability issues are fixed now - and it's debatable whether they are - the public perception of "Xbox = unreliable" is going to haunt Microsoft for a long, long time.

@ first bolded

you know why? because sony cut the price of ps3.

@second bolded

you know why? because MS cut the price of 360.

Twice in the same year :P