| Lurker said: PS3 will stay ahead as long as 360 is dead in Japan or until 360 gets another price cut. |
This is what I think, but I also think that an aggressive bundle in Others would hep as well. MS has the US on lock and they'll never have Japan on lock. The fight is in others but they aren't really trying as hard as they should. The weekly gap between the systems isn't as big as it used to be, but MS is doing nothing to combat the fact that Sony offers a much more compelling product out of the box at the same price.
I think they should go back to bundling a couple of games that people actually want rather than two games that nobody would ever consider buying or playing. Maybe Halo 3 and Fable 2 again or ODST (once Reach comes out) and Fable 2. The sales life for those titles is pretty much done but they're still games that would be seen as a good value if they came in the box. If they were too cheap to put actual discs in the box, have them pre-installed to the HDD.
They need to do something over there. That's where the real battleground is for them and it seems like they aren't even trying.
