From Wikipedia: A comeback is the return of a person (or in this case a company/console) of public interest, a style or fashion in the mid-point of media interest.
Did the PS3 return to the public interest or did it just continue to fade away, as it was doing before the pricecut? Of course it was a comeback. Those who say it are just biased. Was the 360 pricecut in '08, and related sales, a comeback from when the PS3 was selling more than it? Yes. Was Wii's return to the top weekly sales, after its pricecut a comeback? Yes.
It seems people who label this as a failed attempt of a comeback are just setting up scenerios no one could cross. I mean, really, do you expect them to destroy an 8 mil gap in just 6 months? Why don't we look at what they have done, though. That 8 mil gap has been taken down to just 5.5 mil, and closing more each week. An 8 mil gap that most were saying would only get bigger, probably ending this gen with a gap of ~10-15mil. What's more pathetic is those who don't support Sony say that even if they claim 2nd this gen, it won't count cause it was near the end. What? How dumb is that. So, if Sony takes 2nd, but then at the very end MS take its back, that won't count? Oh, I bet it will then. These must be the same people who said that PS3 sales would soon settle under the 360.
Also those who say the price cut was "forced" and not part of a plan are just fooling themselves. You think they honestly just thought up of the Slim right before it launched? Sony doesn't work that way, especially not after MS's fiasco with RROD. They took the time to R&D the new components and casing, as well as the time to endlessly test it. I would imagine research on that baby probably started at least a year before its release.
And does anyone think that the pricecuts of every gen before were forced, too? Or is it just Sony's? What about Nintendo's forced pricecut? When the Slim launched, it was beating every home console on a weekly basis, even the Wii. That is until Nintendo was forced to lower the Wii to $200 in order to claim the top spot again. Of course, I already know the response I'm going to get for that factoid. Some Nintendo fan justifying what Nintendo did as not forced, but damning Sony's as forced.
