Why is MS dead, I dont get it

[Final-Fan]

Addendum:
Both companies started out losing huge amounts on hardware initially (true, Sony's loss was bigger but that's a difference of degree not kind) and subsequently have given tremendous efforts to becoming profitable while continuing to prioritize sales above hardware profitability.

While it's true that the PS3 has cut its price more than the 360 despite being more in the red to begin with, the 360 has had its own "special" problems eating massive amounts of cash, and has also had to focus some of its HW revision efforts on that while Sony was able to concentrate purely on cost-cutting (much to the howls of backwards-compatability lovers such as myself).

I'm not saying it necessarily cancels out to even, and it's true that MS seems to now be reluctant to put itself directly in the red on HW anymore, but I think that the situations are pretty damn close -- more than close enough that saying that MS and Sony are pursuing fundamentally different strategies is just not correct, IMO. Certainly it's close enough that a compelling argument to the contrary would have to be presented, which has not happened.