Those are the arguments I see every time ironman.
People say the 360 is cheaper at retail. It is easier for people to buy because it fits the impulse buy price range. You can easily buy one with half of your average person's weekly paycheck.
The reason that people talk about 360 as being more expensive is because they are trying to inform people who are in the market for a system and are weighing the pros and cons. In the end, 360 is actually more expensive, if you wanted to weigh the pros and cons on an equal footing.
They are related ideas but they are different aspects of the same idea. It's like buying food and trying to figure out how much food you can actually buy. You can say some things are better than others, like organic food over actual amount of food, but the best way to do it is to find out exactly how much of each vitamin,mineral is in each serving and then compare the servings. What you find out in the console example, is that you need to spend more on one type of food (xbox) in order to get the same amount of nutrition in the other food (ps)
This doesn't necessarily mean that all the nutrients in the (ps3) are required. It is simply one way to look at it.
