Did Sony get too cocky not matching the Xbone's price drop this holiday season?

[Mr Puggsly]

Tachikoma said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Your logic is all wrong. PS4 selling more units would indeed impact X1, they are direct competitors.

Xbox 360 thriving took sales away from PS3 because most people won't buy both.

Indeed it did, it was on sale a full year before the PS3 was, but, the question is , did that head start and the much stronger sales, stop the PS3 from being a success in the long term? no.

Besides, this is all working on the assumption that Sony has missed an opportunity that they will never have again, and thats a stupid assumption.

Sales are strong right now, without a cut in price, when sales start to dip they can roll out a sales cut and bring the baseline back up, or would you have preffered it if Sony had went all out and set to obliterate the xbox one? because even if they tried, even if the pricepoint was low enough, that still wouldnt happen, microsoft have the financials to stoop to ANY level to salvage their efforts, so it would be a futile and extremely wasteful attempt, to drop the price of a console that is the global sales leader.

And backing away from the focus on particular consoles, one thriving and the other on the brink of death is detrimental to the games industry now, back in the Ps2 days it wasnt, but now, third parties would die out entirely in a situation where only one manufacturers system was doing well.

Here's a better question. Did the 360's success stop PS3 from achieving PS2 success? Absolutely.

Remember, Sony sacrificed billions just to compete with the Xbox 360. Its debatable whether or not the PS3 was a success.

PS4 is going strong, but it could be doing better if Sony was more competitive and taking more sales from Xbox. That's a fact.