Donmiggy143 t1_jeg3ujj wrote on March 31, 2023 at 7:31 PM

Maybe I missed it, was there some controversy with that? Did it retail for more or something?

Mandus_Therion OP t1_jeg5dze wrote on March 31, 2023 at 7:41 PM

5 9 9 us dollars was a big meme

The price is way too high for that year, now adays you might think it is normal but x360 was priced at 399$ and the wii for 249$

The extra price was because PS3 had a blu-ray player which sony was betting on against x360 HD DVD

xH0LLYW000Dx t1_jegaduf wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:15 PM

If Microsoft sold the xbox 360 with a built-in HD-DVD player this would have been a really interesting console race.

But they didn't and Sony won with the bluray ending the format wars for now..

hellraiser29 t1_jegh450 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:00 PM

Sony consoles have always outsold Microsoft consoles before this and after for some reason.

Catty_C t1_jegircc wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:11 PM

Xbox 360 was beating the PlayStation 3 in sales until late in the generation and by the PS4 and Xbox One the PS3 had slightly outsold the Xbox 360.

It's easy to explain how PS2 beat original Xbox since PS2 had DVD support out of the box and PlayStation was already established due to the previous generation. Xbox 360 did well for them to be beating PS3 but as PS3 games started outputting more the console jumped in sales. The Xbox One launch was lackluster and PlayStation 4 was simply cheaper and more powerful so it started with a lead and is around 2:1 in terms of outselling Xbox One.

So I think PlayStation just had a larger marketshare overall and always had because Xbox came into the market at the height of PlayStation domination.