PS3 surpassing Xbox 360 countdown: Let the end finally begin.

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slowmo said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

UnknownFact said:
PS3 will have more sales than X360 by the end of this generation, however X360 won. Clearly. By far.

Wii too, but, their win was not as relevant as X360's.

The Wii won the generation casuals and all (Sony and Microsoft wanted them too but only Microsoft got a taste). The PS3 vs the 360 was the clash of the titans and Sony will come out on top. Microsoft pulled out all the stops to make sure Sony wouldn't surpass them, but if you want to be factual Microsoft succeeded in winning over America towards their product which also increases national morale in home grown products. Microsoft is going to have to keep Americans in their ballcourt next gen or Sony will gobble them up. If they both launch this year this will be the first gen ever were a Sony and Microsoft product launch at the same time and people will be forced to assess the pros and cons of owning one or the other.

No they didn't really pull out all the stops.  Microsoft seemed to settle for profit in 2010 and didn't agressively market on price as they could have at the time.  We'll know more over the next few weeks but generally it looks like Microsoft have tailed 360 support over the last 18 months shifting support early to the next Xbox.  I think the Xbox brand is pretty safe in the America's, they'll likely still not do very well in Japan next gen so the battle ground will be Europe, which frankly is Sony's to lose.  People act like launching at the same time would be a detriment for microsoft when in fact it means they will not suffer the problems of people waiting to see what the competition have to offer like last gen.

This is going off topic though, the point of the thread is when the PS3 will outsell the 360 which is clearly within the month according to the current figures. 

 

Microsoft didnt agressively market because they barely had anything to market outside of the Kinect from 2011 outside of two games since the Kinect launched in Gears and Halo on replay. Sony beat them basically the whole year until fourth quarter when people knew they could get their hands on a discounted Xbox system. Microsoft will cut the price of the 360 at E3 or their reveal. They haven't cut the price competitively in a while. If they do its for brief periods of time to screw with the consumer base and get quick sales before bringing it back to normal. I have a feeling looking at the sales now that they'll try again but they will drop the price for good. This is the final measure to which Microsoft has pull out all the stops against Sony. In the end all Sony had to do was price their console competitively and outpace them in making games as they always do. It was a matter of time, but when you have a casual device that sells twenty million....well it kind of slows things down for the competition...wouldn't you agree? It was tortoise vs hare fight and sometimes the race isn't always for the swift.