Slimebeast on 09 October 2009
People dont seem to realize that MS have a very hard time to make savings on the X360 hardware manufactoring to be able to cut it's price.
The slow drop in price of the X360 indicates this. Cos in four years it went from $399 to $299 and $299 to $199 - only a $100 drop in price. That's record slow price drops in console history. Meanwhile PS3 has managed to cut $200.
So Sony has the upper hand cos they managed to drastically cut the costs of a very pricey console, while MS is unable to accomplish anything like that and thus can't stay competitive any longer. (price of X360 in Europe is $50 lower but the reason for that is not savings on the console, but MS simply has to sell it for a loss cos they were tanking in Europe)
