Its over for the 360

[Final-Fan]

Parokki said:
Whoa, what shitstorm. I'm surprised to see a mod starting a thread like this.

The PS3 is currently seeing quite a large boost from HD-DVD dying, as the people who were interested in HD, but not interested in owning the next Betamax, are buying the cheapest available Blu-ray player. This will probably have a lasting effect on PS3 sales, which will go down over time as better and cheaper dedicated BR players become available.

The PS3 definitely has a strong advantage right now, but MS hasn't played nearly as many of their cards as Sony. It's far from over, and already closer than anyone ever expected a few years ago.

I don't know about that.  Obviously Sony has ridden its price cuts very hard, while MS's horse is still pretty fresh in that race.  But MS on the other hand pushed out its best year in games in 2007.  There will be nothing like Halo 3 for the rest of the 360's life.  Make no mistake, the 360 has a great year coming in 2008 as far as games go but Sony has not come anywhere close to exhausting themselves on that side of things.  Both companies have spent a lot (too much) of their efforts on hardware revision:  Sony on cost-cutting efforts and MS on ... well, you know. 

In short, both companies have expended a great deal of energy already and both have quite a few tricks left up their sleeves.  Sony has probably blown through its reserves faster, but it had more reserves to blow through.  And some of the perception that they have little left to give is just the fact that their flailing was more obviously inept than MS's.