^^yeh unfortuantely i know quite a few poeple who have owned nintendo consoles but hate sony for what happened in the ps1-ps2 days lol

No, I'm just pointing out what I see, the reason you think I have a hatred of Sony is because you prefer Sony and don't like me saying anything that can be construed as negative.

People don't largely care about the quality of build of the systems, as long as it works and delivers what they want at a price they can afford.

As with anything, if two products are similar enough, the product that gives you more for the price is bought, right now its the PS3, the 360 lacks some of the features of the PS3 and since they are at price Parity, the PS3 is leading, however if you look at it objectively, you see this, one that we have already seen evidence of demand increasing for the 360 at lower costs, two, that Sony is losing money on each PS3 and MS is making money on the 360, and finally that MS can price cut to a greater degree than Sony can.

Now you can dispute all you want, but the facts are clear a lower priced 360 will see its sales rise, and the evidence shows a large rise, likely enough to overtake the PS3 in weekly sales, in addition MS can afford this price cut more than Sony can, as MS is currently profitable as is their gaming, Sony is not profitable, and neither is their gaming division.

It is in MS's best interest to cut, and then, force Sony into a financial bind.

Your not getting the principle of a promotion do you? Im gonna repeat myself again, selling something at half price is different than selling something at regular price even if this selling price is the same.

Announcement of a PS4? PS4 could launch at the same time as the next XBox in 2011 or 2012.

I am betting on the Next XBox will be more powerful than the PS4. Microsoft were pissed that Sony made the PS3 more powerful than the XBox 360 this generation. XBox was far more powerful than the PS2. PS3 is far more powerful than the XBox 360. Microsoft has a lot more money than Sony to produce the most powerful video games console which would be most suitable for game developers porting from PC to the next XBox

PS4 more than likely will be an upgraded version of the PS3. Backwards compatibility for PS3 games to be played on the PS4 needs to be a priority. Sony launching the PS3 Slim ahead of schedule is a desperate move and they are trying to reduce losses on the PS3 and planning towards next generation.

How can i possibly disagree with a person who uses a guy with a hot bod as their avtar lol.
No seriously, I think they will try and make the next XBOX more powerful, but will they rush it out again, we all hope not.
As for deseperate moves by sony, I don't think so, the slim has been planned for a while, so it was all part of a huge plan to make ps3 more succesful and it has worked, plus i really expect tham to make another model later on anyway.
I would call lots of price cuts in one year desperate though(m$)

  It doesn't matter, as it still shows there is a demand at the lower price, a price cut is a promotion as well

if price really matters then shouldn't the xbox360 be selling more than both consoles^^
there you go argument over, go take your hate for sony elsewhere please

No, because Elite is not cheaper than Wii or PS3, and secondly, Wii and 360 are not substitutes, Wii sales aren't affected by PS3 or 360 price, because its library is vastly different

the Arcade is tho, as seen as people don't supposedly care about quality that would be the one they get, do your research properly please^^

you are now contradicting yourself, so just stop now, you said people don't care about quality and it's all about price, now you are saying wii is not vunerable because of it's library, make your mind up

I was thinking the same thing, backing you 100%!