I wouldn’t predict the demise of the 360 so quickly. A price cut is coming, and there are plenty more games besides Halo 3 coming out that also have pretty good hype right now: Mass Effect, and Call of Duty 4. The fact that the PS3 STILL couldn’t outsell the 360 after a big price cut says a lot. Sony is still losing money on the PS3, and the 360 still has a ridiculous attach rate, which means more games for the 360, which means more sales.
The Wii still has huge titles coming for it.
Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Super Mario Galaxy. And Metroid Prime 3: Corruption comes out tomorrow.
Sorry, but I stand by 360 being another net loss for MS. They had a year being the only system, and that’s over, they have a 1 in 3 failure rate.
Their price cut, barely staved off the PS3 < 11,000 units.
The Xbox Division has burned more than 20 BILLION dollars in losses since its inception and has no chance of seeing a profit anytime soon.
Sony while you may not like them, has shown it nows how to do something MS has yet to show.. and that’s how to actually make money in gaming.
PS3 will outsell it in terms of units per month I predict by November, 1st quarter 08 at the latest.
MS is desperate, price point is the only play they have left... and they can’t win just on that. They have had more than 1 year longer in the market, and as such have a larger library of games.. and still have been spanked royally by Nintendo, and the PS3 is on the brink of surpassing them as well.
They destroyed themselves as always by pushing out hardware that wasn’t ready and being driven by marketing instead of by technology... something MS always does. They will likely do the same thing again in a year or two, force out a new “next gen” console, that isn’t reliable just to try to be first mover and again lose the war.
MS’s stock holders should be demanding this division be closed, its a black hole that will never bear fruit.