You give Kudos to Microsoft for keeping the lead but not Sony for reducing the lead? Microsoft’s lead currently stands at 1.6 million and at one point it was 8 million, even though as you say, they give 360s away with PC purchases. Even someone with a neutral perspective on sales would know which company deserves kudos here. Just to give this context: if the PS3 had released alongside the 360, they would be currently 4 million ahead… and if they could have afforded to release at the same price, who knows what that lead would have been.Microsoft have done an extraordinary job of sustaining sales, that’s for sure, but considering the price of the PS3, releasing a year later (16 months in Europe) and the less than helpful press, I’d say what Sony have achieved is miraculous.
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