Sony always cut the price with Slim. And price war is for losers. GameCube at some point was selling for 99 USD and it didn't even scratch ps2. Price drops only help when demand is getting saturated in said price tag, not to increase demand itself besides a one month boost at most.

Every time when the PS4 outsells the Xbox One according to the NPD, Sony thanks their supporters for making them the console of choice. This was what I was referring to. 

I'm not sure how accurate this article is but it shows Sony pretty much always price matched PS2 with the OG Xbox. PS1 also price matched the N64.

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Price_cuts

If Sony wanted a bigger sales edge, they could just price match. But I can understand why they wouldn't.

According to that article, Sony was the first to drop the price of the PS2, and MS and Nintendo followed suit. So how is that them matching the price? Looks to me that MS was playing catch up, not Sony. It shows the same thing for the PS1 era, too.

Looks more like the market leader would drop their price, and the others quickly followed.

Either way, Sony was more competitive at pricing with PS1 and PS2 consoles even though they were huge market leaders. Sony was trying to keep the PS3 price low as possible and they lost a lot of money in the process.

PS4 could have price matched X1 at $299. But its safe to assume they don't want to trade potential profits for a bigger lead.

Vat is dis game?

Persona 5

Its a turn based RPG, what your seeing is a gif of a the typical victory screen, where you see exp + money + item gained, its just on a animated background, useing ingame graphics.

I think the games matter to a certain extent, but as far as the casual market goes, the system that sells best is usually the cheaper one. PS3 arguably had the best exclusive line up of its generation and came in dead last in America. It was the highest price system out the gate, and it only became competitive when the prices went down.

I still believe the PS4 will get a pricecut, and it will again overtake monthly sales in the states within the next few months because the brand is better, but the primary reason the console will consistently stay ahead in the US is if it remains competitive in the price department.

Gah! Ok I should have known that, just from the little cat character ( can't remember his name ). I don't watch a ton of game videos, so even games I'm interested in can be pretty unfamiliar to me before release.

I doubt always (Gamecube was cheaper than PS2 and lost big time), but at these last two generations show that price matters. And there were high priced machines from Panasonic and Neo-Geo and such that were'nt even considered competitors because of how rediculous their prices were back in the day. Maybe the cheapest machine hasn't always won the west, but the hitting of the value sweetspot where price isn't too different from competitors and brand name/games support the system probably does.

Point is, price matters...especially for non-core gamers who buy these systems on big days like Black Friday and Christmas. I think X1 won Black Friday last year, if I remember correctly, because it had a $300 system with games.