Xbox 360 Vs. Playstation 3 2012 - *February* Update

[Reasonable]

XanderZane said:
PS3 will probably win, but the 1.5 million lead they built up in 2011 just about completely evaporated. At the end of the year their gain will only be about 200K for 2011. Considering the PS3 also has Japan, that's not too impressive at all. The Xbox 360 did it without a large amount of exclusives. Imagine if they had they same number of exclusives as the PS3 did. I think things would be completely different right now.

Yeah, the poor old 360 only had USA and huge holiday discounts.  It had no chance to overcome the massive Japanese market...

The reality - both devices are going to finish pretty much even and both utilised different approaches to discounting the price to the consumer, PS3 with a formal full price cut (which makes sense for a less seasonal device) and the 360 with huge seasonal discounts (which makes sense for a heavily seasonal device) - doesn't that imply they did equally well in their respective strong markets with appropriate pricing strategies or am I missing something?