You can  guarantee no more shared exclusives in the future? =)

Sony is taking a loss on the PS4, but it's a tiny one. One is either taking an almost non existent loss or breaking even depend on where you look. They're both supposedly making profit after purchase of LIVE/PS+ and a game.

The reason the One costs more to produce despite weaker hardware is due to the Kinect and the fact its wafer is nearly one and a half times the size of the PS4's due to the ESRAM gamble not paying off while Sony's DDR5 gamble did.

I doubt it in the long run. Sony have always had shitty launch line ups and pretty mediocre first years (though both MS and Sony have pretty mediocre lineups this year, from whats been announced anyway), but no one has ever been able to challenge Sony is long term home console support. It's one of the primary factors that lead to the PS3 managing to catch up and pass the 360.

I think its more than a fear. Its fact.

The X1 is beeing outsold 2 to 1 currently and the PS4 is about to launch in Japan, where X1 has no foothold.
This battle is decided. The only way Microsoft stands a chance is if they unbundle the Kinect and take big losses. Unless the X1 is priced under the PS4, they have no chance in europe.

Hardly. It wasn't a colossus success like the PS2, but it was non the less still a success in sales. Would you say the X1's launch has been a failure since it lost it's US market share advantage? Of course not, it still sold great regardless to the competition.

It could be argued the 360 was actually a failure for not being able to beat the PS3 and Wii despite the year head start, fuck ups from competition and billions in marketing. I don't personally agree with that kind of argument, but it follows the same line of thought as what you said.

I would agree the PS3 was a failure in it's loss of market share, and that was Sony's own fault, but it wasn't an "absolute failure" as a product.

I was only doing a comparison to the PS3 launch and the X1.  They are different in that MS is not taking a loss so there is no pressure to cut out features to bring the console to a price point people will want.  The X1 is selling and as long as MS produce games gamers want it will probably continue to keep selling.  

On this board people only care about how many units sold but there is so much more to the business process then marketshare.  Do anyone think Sony could ever do another PS3 again where you have loses for a good part of the time the unit is on the market.

Now this is slightly more than 100dollars off, Gamestop started doing this last week, for those not familiar with the Euro and its value $1 right now will buy you €0.74, the X1 costs €500 euros if you buy it without this offer btw here.

It's a valid "fear," what would you rather do, have Microsoft sit back and do nothing while they fall behind in market share?

Some people on here would love if they did exactly this :D

The war is over already...

In the actual situation even if MS cut the price of Xbone to $350 it still will sell less than PS4.