On one hand, I agree. Hardware, price and services improve that way. On the other hand, best games on each platforms have always been exclusives, and multiplats were always far from as polished. A dominant platform means less multiplats and more exclusives to me, which in turn means better games.

Wut? Sony bundled Destiny, not M$

MS bundled it as well only not "Officially". Like Sony did with FIFA. Plus MS held the free game promo the same week as Destiny in the US.

Sony hasn't touched the price of its' console since launch. They are going to have a massive holiday regardless. Next Xmas season we'll probably see a $299 PS4.

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That's true, but MS sacrificed billions to buy Minecrfat.

I think X1 is likely losing money for them due to: $50 cut + bundled 3rd party games + generous trade-in offers + buying off exclusive games.  However, due to the fairly "low" sales, losing $100 per-console for X1 is less hurtful than it would be for Sony.

Not to mention they wont be losing any actual marketshare either

Even with everything MS has done, they still couldnt top PS4 while Sony is doing absolutely nothing. Cant imagine what next year will be like when first PS4 price cut hits r with UC4 in the holidays and other AAA exclusives

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.

They didn't sacrifice billions, they invested billions! Its a top selling game on Playstation platforms!

I'm sure MS is sacrificing money on the price and game bundles. But I don't believe its the kind of money Sony lost on PS3 or MS lost on 360 hardware issues.

As MS said, this is not a sprint, this is a marathon... so we will see what Sony's next move is... Usually a price drop is responded with by a price drop, whoever does it first...

And yeah, so far Sony had reasons to think that no matter what, people just wanted PS4s and they did not want XB1... in a sense the current pricing/agressive bundling makes the whole console power discussion a bit more complicated, yes the XB1 is a compromise in therms of performance, but it also cost you less up front and depending on the bundle you get you can get a few games with it RIGHT away.

Plus they have MCC releasing this month, my guess is that MCC combined with the price drop you get many people who may not have bothered with only one or the other to jump in.

But hey after what Destiny did, all the good press MS got over the last couple of months, etc. and the sales were still better on PS4, even I was thinking they were un beatable... The thing is, many people are on the fence, so a significant price difference can sway a lot of people, and the timing is great too because this is the holiday shopping season, so the effects are much bigger than in the summer months!

Week one of the drop is up. Sony still sold more.