MS: PS3 slim doesn't worry us (+ Elite PRICE DROP in UK)

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Slimebeast said:
People really only need to close their eyes for a minute and imagine this:

- It's Christmas 2009, the PS3 Slim at $299 has huge momentum and is outselling the X360.
- The general feeling on forums like this will be that the X360 is dead and PS3 will easily beat it this gen. And there will be many of these 'predict when gap is closed' threads all over this place again.

That would be fun

I remember a thread asking "Will the PS3 hit 50 million before the 360?", and this thread had a reply saying "Lol, a better question would be will it hit 30 million before the 360?". This was when the PS3 was at around 15 million and the 360 around 20.5 million. The general atmosphere on the site was "360 is dooooooooomed!" and after nearly a year of "PS3 is dooooooooomed!", this would be kind of refreshing. Though to be fair, we have had a bit of "Wii is doooooooomed!"

Maybe (hopefully?) people have now seen how quickly momentum can shift with an intelligent strategy, and we'll see fewer doom threads this time around.