Yogi Bera once said "it gets late early out there" and he also said "we made too many wrong mistakes". Between RROD and the explosion of the Wii in 2006- its fairly clear that it got late early to try to beat Nintendo and they made alot of bad mistakes with RROD. I've heard the RROD stuff is what prevented a 360 price drop for the Wii & PS3 launch in Nov 2006

Does Microsoft really think they will finish in second place? They'd be able to do a much better job of that if they weren't losing to Sony each and every week -- and to be honest Sony hasn't even released a big exclusive since June 12th yet the PS3 is still pounding the 360 in worldwide sales every week.

Two weeks ago Microsoft lost to Sony by more than 50,000 units and last week they lost by more than 70,000 units including by 40,000 in Europe last week where the 360 has been getting pounded by the PS3 even though ithe 360 has been at the $199.99 price tag there since last Spring. What is Microsoft going to do to generate more sales of their console over there? Start standing on the street corner and see if they can give the things away?

poor m$,came to the market first with the 360,got outsold by the wii(which was released a year after the 360),now PS3 is following the same trend by outselling the 360 weekly.......

m$ speak about the PS3 as if it was released the same year as the 360.....
m$ has to resort to dropping the 360 price because they realized they already lost the market and now losing usa...

all m$ can do right now is boast about their lead over PS3 while their time is running out

Isn't aiming for 2nd just admitting defeat? Does this only serve to highlight that when setting goals M$ are more short term than long term? And does that bode well for their consumers when you realise the machine you support doesn't even have the full backing of the company which makes it?

 "We won!"

Nintendo: (laugh)

fixed

Two many factors to determine who will be where. It's almost guaranteed Nintendo has won, that's a given. I think Sony has a lot of momentum now and the 360 needs to railroad it in order to come in second. Price drop is a start, HUGE games needs to be next, followed by some XBL related features.

I like bitter tears, keep it up