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SamuelRSmith on 20 February 2008
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starcraft said:
BMaker11 said:
@Dallinor

Not neccessarily, as the 360 was outselling the PS3 in NA for all of January, according to ioi, but PS3 had EU and JP which had the 360 outsold total WW.

@starcraft
"A $200 drop in base price, versus a $20 drop in base price (in reality it was two $100 price drops versus one $50 price drop but Sony fans don't like that so its been reworded for their ease of understanding). If its going to take that for Sony to compete I think it's clear they wont be able to keep it up."

Technically the base price was $500, and now the base is $400, so that's not $200. Secondly, the 40GB is not a price cut, it's a new SKU. By your logic, I could technically say that M$ spiked the price of the 360 because they introduced the Elite. And then to get even more technical:

Nov '06 PS3 - $500/$600
Present PS3 - $400/$500

New model =/= price adjustment, whether it be up or down

Actually this was gone over in another thread.  Aside from the fact that the 20gb was available in such limited supply it could be called rare, there was a period in which the 20gb had officially been dropped, but the 60gb hadn't had a price cut.  Therefore, there was a time when the base price was $600.  Lol, you could argue the PS3 briefly got a price INCREASE.


Well, the key words there are "could", "argue" and "briefly" in that last sentence.

But, really your argument is ridiculous anyway. It doesn't matter HOW the PS3 is now outselling the 360, what does matter is the fact that it IS outselling the 360.

And, for what it's worth, I think that the ONLY reason the 360 is ahead of the PS3 is because of its year
headstart. If they were to have both launched at the same time, you can see that the PS3 is tracking ahead
of the 360 in this point in its life. You will also see that not as many games that are exclusive for the 360 now, would have not been exclusive if they both released at the same time, and the PS3 would have had tracked even further ahead.  And you can't use the line "360 sold because
of high quality games" as the only games that have pushed the 360 in any substancial way were Halo 3
and Gears of War. But, none of this matters, as it's not important why the 360 is ahead of the PS3, but what does matter is that it is.