A price drop would work for the 360, but they honestly don't need it. They don't need to compete with Sony because there is honestly nothing for them to compete with at this point in time. They're still selling better thant he PS3 and showing no lag in sales, and until due time have no reason to make fans think they need to dance to Sony's tune (i.e. they need to counter everything Sony does or they can't survive).

One could argue the price cut would be a surprise before the Halo3 release to make the phenomenon even more magnificent.

This is Microsoft's big chance to put a significant lead between the 360 and PS3 because next year it'll be much harder since PS3 will be stronger than it is now. They're fools if they don't go for at least a $50 price cut but it should be more like a $100 one to match Sony's.

Um three straight months of under 200k sales in the US, and a probable fourth upcoming when we see June figures. It may be selling better than the PS3 but it's definetly lagging a bit now in sales. IMO the 360 has to put distance between itself and the PS3 or else the PS3 can easily catch up and surprass it in 2008 and 2009. Just selling better shouldn't be good enough, that why I think they need to cut prices soon.

But worldwide the 360 is selling much better. Why do people always need to use specific market to hide the truth of the bigger picture here?

Did it ever occur to you that Halo 3 will sell better than any game comming out for the PS3 this year? Perhaps they don't need to bother with such measure until they see real problems in their sales.

 Nice fud, why dont you prove it.  Last i read they were almost dead even for 2007

 Ms is just giving away their lead, no clue wtf is wrong with them.  Maybe they think Halo is unstopable, probably they do.

Gballzack the 360 sells best in the US, so poor sales there are really bad for it. Worldwide it actually sells much worse. Not sure where you pulled that statement from.

She may have been going by the old European numbers that were on this site. They showed the 360 beating the PS3 in Europe but apparently ioi or someone else updated them and now they're the complete opposite.

Dropping the price in july is usually unheard-of. Gamecube dropped by $50 in may 2001, if that gives you any idea. Microsoft is probably just waiting for october or november to slash the price - and put Sony into a corner again (most console sales happen in the holidays).

this site itself proves it.

Week of 6/24/07 360 had 10.06m units and on the Week of 7/1/07 360 had 10.13m units, that's .07m units sold

Week of 6/24/07 PS3 had 3.56m units and on the week of 7/1/07 Ps3 had 3.61m units, that's .05m units sold.

360 is still selling .02m more units weekly world wide, this site is the source, check it for yourself.

I don't think we can rely on this site's numbers for anything other than North America and that's after we get confirmation of the numbers during the middle of the month. I'm not trying to bash this site but the numbers can change drastically from one week to the next (hundreds of thousands of sales disappear, etc). The 360's numbers were reduced so it's at 10.06 again. It's just predictions that can be off by 20-30% or more at times that are the problem.