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thismeintiel on 30 August 2011
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ultraslick said:
CGI-Quality said:
360 is just the "it" console in the Americas at this point. I think a $199 PS3 (with actual advertising) would shift things for a while, but not enough to make any significant dent. It's EMEAA where the real advantage of the price cut will be felt for PS3, especially during the holidays.


Your giving the 360 itself too much credit here I think. If microsoft wants sales for the 360, they make it happen. It has never been the consumers choice in this regard. You buy ANY windows laptop and get a free 360!??? think about that one. Microsoft does not make all computers, they are literally giving these things away with computers that are sold simply because these comuters use windows. How are they not selling 2 or 300,000 a week in NA alone? Im serious.

They introduce Kinect and go ape shit with marketing, include it with consoles, market it more than anything. Cross promotions for xbox when you buy fast food, drink a pop, watch tv, buy a car, listen to the radio, brush your teeth. Why?

Because they have to.

Sony puts out games and drops the price... that is all. Microsoft wishes they could ease up in this regard.

The 360 is a space shuttle rocketing towards space, but without thousands of gallons of gas, (everything listed above), it would plummit back down to earth. This is nothing new, gotta love the timed exclusive dlc, the thought of which makes me laugh. Not an exclusive game, not a timed exclusive game, not exclusive dlc, but Yes, timed-exclusive-dlc for 30 days. They literally could not be doing more. to sell the Microsoft Xbox 360.

1 week of Microsoft stopping the BS, stopping with one crazy sale/deal/bundle after another, stopping with giving the 360 to poeple who buy computers, and the consoles sales would be unaltered by the power of the marketing machine.

Honestly in America where the 360 "sells" the most week after week, its sometimes hard to recognize that there is even an alternative. You gotta hand it to Microsoft as a company for having a solid business strategy. They wouldnt be anywhere close to where they are without it.

The IT console in America? Well I guess so, but we have to step back and think about what exactly that means.

So true.  Not saying that 360's sales would have been horrible if the promotion wasn't going, but I doubt it would have had a 9K lead on the PS3.  Probably would be selling about the exact same.  Plus, you have a $199 360 SKU already.  I'm pretty sure once the PS3 hits $199 (probably around the release of the Wii U)  we should see sales rise slightly above the 360s for most of the weeks left until the 720 or PS4 launch.  Of course, 360 will remain on top overall, but the momentum will go in Sony's favor for next gen.