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

[Mr Puggsly]

DialgaMarine said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Again, I think this is the first generation where people are surprised a console manufacturer is losing money early on.

Money is one of MS's strength and they are taking advantage of it. In past generations money was a strength of Sony as well and that gave them an edge.

 Selling at a loss in the begining has only really ever been common with Sony. Microsoft never once sold the 360 at loss, nor did they ever sell the original Xbox at a loss. Yes, Microsoft has money, but they've never been a company known for losing money on a product for too long before they just give up and end it (Zune, anyone?). It's kindof why they have all that money to begin with. I guarentee that they're not going to accept losing all this money for long if it continues to yield only decent results at best. Let's not forget that the PS4 STILL outsold XBone WW this past week despite XBone having so much favor. Right now, they're more or less capturing the impulse buyers who taking advantage of the temporary price drop. One the price goes back up after the holidays and CoD dust settles, they'll be right back to being far behind PS4. 

Sony doesn't have to worry about money right now because the PS4 is still beasting as it has stood all year long, so they're still making money. 

You assume MS never sold the 360 at a loss, I doubt that's true. It was a very powerful and reasonably priced console at launch.

Use your head, you know there are plenty of things MS funded for many years without seeing a profit. They dropped Zune and put their focus on Windows Phones and Tablets. The iPod lost relevance as Apple put their focus on other products. But how is the Playstation Vita doing? Sony is still pouring money into that, right?

As the X1 userbase grows it becomes more financially worthwhile. Just like with 360 and PS3, they were losing billions of dollars but arguably became financially worthwhile later on. Fortunately for MS I don't believe X1 is losing PS3 or 360 levels of money.

PS4 is making money but not Sony. So they can't throw money around to stop competition from thriving like they've done in the past.