Microsoft has been looking for reasons not to drop the cost of the 360's, bundling it with anything they can. The Xbox 360's haven't dropped price in god knows how long. It's only had $100 of the price cut in seven years.

Yeah rrrright. I walk into Mediamarkt and see palettes of  250G XBox $229, 250G Kinect Bundle $269.. Sure looks like no price cut...

current gap starting 2012 and ending dec 8, shows a decrease by one full million. With sales as similar as they are beyween the hd wonder twins, that will likely swing further toward ps3 as the sony console tends to outsell during the final week. Gap may increase by 200k up until xmas, but will be reclaimed last week and first week of 2013.

Also, recent updates show the ps3 as having outsold 360 the week after black friday by 30k. Truly an outstanding year for pstriple.

Microsoft has been looking for reasons not to drop the cost of the 360's, bundling it with anything they can. The Xbox 360's haven't dropped price in god knows how long. It's only had $100 of the price cut in seven years. Based on Sonys price cuts the 360 should competitively be around $150. Their bundles have sold stellar so kudos to them.

QQ more xander.

why would you consider a product that is able to sell for 33% longer amount of time, selling more consoles and games, and make revenue when costs are at their lowest, irrelevant?

Enter the Wii fan. 

Yes, it matters even though the next gen has started.  It's about lifetime sales.

Besides, the WiiU can hardly be considered "next gen".

It's mainly because the XBox 360 isn't selling as well in Europe as it has the previous holidays. It always sells poorly in Japan, which is one of the main reasons the PS3 is even catching up. Remove Japan from the equation and the 360 would be about 5-6 million units ahead of the PS3. There's really no fair ground in Japan (and all of Asia really) as their country and people don't like American game consoles or out games. I usually don't even include Japan in my stats. US & Europe are the only relevant countries.

Who supports their system the longest will be determined by which console keeps selling, earning the support.

Case in point - Wii sales took a nosedive before the WiiU was announced.  I remember when people here were discussing whether the Wii would eventually outsell the PS2 - it's going to come up 50 million short, because it didn't have longetivity.

Creating a product with legs to sell over the long term has merit.

There are movies like Titanic or E.T. that grow with time.  Then there are movies like Twilight that do massive box office sales at the beginning, but see massive drops week to week.  The Wii is Twilight.  I bought one.  I don't play it.

People don't say Titanic's box office is irrelevant because it stayed in theatres longer to hit the numbers it did, even though it took a relatively long 25 days to reach $200 million.

Who supports their system the longest will be determined by which console keeps selling, earning the support.

Case in point - Wii sales took a nosedive before the WiiU was announced.  I remember when people here were discussing whether the Wii would eventually outsell the PS2 - it's going to come up 50 million short, because it didn't have longetivity.

Creating a product with legs to sell over the long term has merit.

There are movies like Titanic or E.T. that grow with time.  Then there are movies like Twilight that do massive box office sales at the beginning, but see massive drops week to week.  The Wii is Twilight.  I bought one.  I don't play it.

People don't say Titanic's box office is irrelevant because it stayed in theatres longer to hit the numbers it did, even though it took a relatively long 25 days to reach $200 million.