Yeah absolute carnage.

I think MS would automatically price match anything Sony does from here on out. And Sony knows that. Now that Kinect is out of the box, the manufacturing costs for both machines should be fairly similar, give or take, so if one drops, expect the other to follow suit. 

If a price cut is initiated, it probably will be MS doing it ... I think Sony is quite content to leave things the way they are. 

I don't know...I never seen a remake being a system seller. I'm not saying Halo 2 Anniversary+Halo 5 beta won't do good numbers, but i won't call it a "massive system seller", maybe you must admit you exaggerated... a little bit, XD. Halo 5 could have been that "massive" system seller, but i can't believe a remake, even one like Halo 2 Anniversary, will do such wonders....Maybe i'm wrong but i think history is on my side.

In my opinion, even if Sony doesn't announce something new, 3rd parties will do the work for PS4 like they did at launch when XBO was considered to have way better exclusive games than PS4.

The prices are now the same (or will be in June), but the PS4 is still quite a bit more powerful, so you are getting more for your buck.  Something core gamers who are buying the systems now, and in the near future, will know.  You say Halo, but it's supposedly only Halo 2 Anniversary, not something huge, like Halo 5.  Sunset Overdrive is a new IP, and made by a studio who hasn't really proven itself since breaking away from Sony.  Forza Horizon didn't exactly sell gangbusters, or systems, for that matter.  Not saying Sony has anything extremely better (most of their releases announced are unproven new IPs, though some do look promising and are from devs who have proven themselves), but they do have the momentum.  And the word of mouth.  And the better multiplats.  Of course, Sony has many more 1st party studios we have yet to hear from.  I can see a few more titles coming this year from a few of them.  Or early next year, which people still keep in mind for their Xmas shopping.

Also, on the topic of price, I see a possible $349 Black Friday bundle for both, but I'm going to have to say that that will favor Sony more than MS, again having the better HW and multiplats for the same price.

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Not bad Pavolink, not bad.

Though hardware power isn't the be all, end all I suppose. PS3 was more powerful than the XBox 360 and the SNES moreso than the Genesis, so there are ways to fight that especially in the US market, but a $100 difference in price was absolutely killing MS, I think we'll see a closer fight starting from post-E3 onwards in North America as the news get out there into the mainstream that they're both the same price. 

Then people are going to start looking more closely at what system has what exclusive. 

Nope I'm not predicting a price cut or really anything yet. For a few reasons

1. I have no idea how an official $100 price cut in the US will effect the Xbox One

2. Who knows what Ace up their sleeves Sony / MS still have and are going to unleash at E3

3. We're still only about a half of a year into these console life cycles. There still isn't a firm established pattern to how these consoles sell (other than Sony currently being higher, but the numbers themselves are changing pretty drastically from month to month for both)

So basically I'm just saying to me its too early to call the holiday period for anyone. There's just far too many variables that could change the outcome.

He was spot on like a clean kill to the head ... 

cross gen games all the way to the holidays but next gen will have decent holiday sales,plenty of shoppers wanting to move on by late 2014