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bouzane on 18 July 2012
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Mr Puggsly said:
bouzane said:


The 360 has been on the market longer and it has little more to gain from price cuts, new models, peripherals or services. I'm not trying to be condescending (don't care if you take it that way though, you're a random person on the Internet who I don't know, just stating a fact) but it really has been terribly obvious for quite some time that the PS3 will eventually overtake the 360 in total hardware sales. Even the surprise success of the Kinect and PSN outage combined can't stop it from happening. The only scenario in which the 360 could possibly outsell the PS3 is if the PS4 hits the market before the Xbox Trinity / Delta and we all know that to be an unlikely scenario.

 

@Mr Puggsly

How do you define the end of a console generation?

I love your arguments. There is still great demand for the 360, yet it has little to gain from price cuts and new models? Are you really under the illusion further price cuts wouldn't stimulate 360 sales? Especially considering it shares most of PS3's library? Nonsense.

Kinect allowed the 360 to maintain strong sales without relying on massive price cuts. If the 360 S included a price cut, the sales gap would be even bigger. It seems clear to me that MS cares more about profit than having a bigger userbase than PS3.

PS3 getting the lead over the 360 is not much of an achievment. When was the last time the 360 had a price cut? MS is basically handing the lead to Sony. Yet Sony just can't seem to do it, its embarassing really.

I think the end of the console generation is when Sony and MS put out new hardware. I don't include NIntendo because their next gen is basically last gen.


Every Boxing Week and New Years sale since December 2010 has seen the 360 on sale for $130 or less. Price really isn't that much of an obstacle to 360 adoption. Also, you misinterpret "little to gain" as "wouldn't stimulate". little =/= nothing. The 360 has little to gain from further price cuts when compared to the PS3 = fact. Price is a bigger obstacle for the PS3 than the 360 = fact. The PS3's entry model is more expensive, therefore a price cut will benefit it to a much larger degree = fact.

Since when was profitability a point of this discussion? Since when was the importance of the PS3 outselling the 360 a point of this discussion?

Yes, Sony sure is incompetent. That doesn't really change the fact that the PS3 is going to overtake the 360 in total unit sales.

Your view on console generations is foolish. The WiiU will launch close to the PS4 and Xbox Trinity / Delta and will compete directly against those systems, therefore they are in the same generation. Nothing can change that very simple definition. Also, I disagree about the timing of the end of this generation. I don't really think a console generation is over until that generation's hardware is no longer being manufactured.

Very, very poor post Mr. Puggsly, you are capable of much more well thought out and relevant arguments then this. As they say on 4chan... "Son, I am Disappoint"