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Captain_Tom on 14 August 2014
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Machiavellian said:
jnemesh said:
Everyone needs to QUIT using the PS3/360 battle as an example! It's a different game than it was 8 years ago! NONE of the advantages that the PS3 had last gen, that enabled them to catch up and eventually surpass the 360 have anything whatsoever to do with where the XB1 stands or where it's going in the future!

You can debate what happened last gen until you turn blue...but it's not going to play out the same way this time guys. There is ZERO chance of the XB1 EVER taking the lead this gen. In the US or globally. The BEST that they can hope for is that they beat out the WiiU for a distant 2nd place...and even that is not assured!

How exactly did the PS3 catch up to the 360.  Was it the multiple price drops.  Was it the removal of all of the initial components within the PS3 when it wasn't selling so good so Sony could drop the price.  Was it Sony retooling the PS3 to build it cheaper, so Sony could drop the price again.

Things do not have to play out the same as last gen but to ignore obvious facts last gen seems to be short sighted.  You sound like the people who were claim the PS3 was dead during those rough years for the PS3.  Sony made many price drops to get the PS3 to a price where consumers preceived the value as acceptable.  It only takes one screw up to turn momentum.  If not for the RROD with the 360 who knows what this gen would have looked like.  Nothing is set and this gen there will be plenty of opportunities for each company to make either smart or dumb moves.

OMG yes.  Sony dropped the price of the PS3, and MS is trying to with the X1 as well.  BUT, the reason the PS3's price could be dropped so fast is because of all the useless junk it had weighing it down (PS2 parts, Memory card readers, Expensive HDD's).  The fact is that the Xbox One (after kinect) doesn't really have much room for price reduction.  It could probably be made a lot smaller, but it still costs as much to make as the PS4.  If MS drops the price, Sony will too.