there is no goal post moving. ultimately businesses do business to make money. nothing else really matters in the grand scheme of things. would they like to be the #1 selling brand? probably. if they make money does it really matter if they're number 1 or 2? not really. Bill Gates was the beat Sony by any means necessary guy. Bill isn't running the company anymore.Man you need to stop fam......all this goalpost moving is rediculous.
the point is that Sony's lead continues to grow in the one area that MS figured they'd have locked up. Natella gonna sell off xbox....watch....
In reality Microsoft has almost no chance at beating Sony because globally Xbox isn't the brand Playstation is. can they stay close? yeah, within striking distance. but Microsoft to beat Sony needs Sony to fukk up rather than anything they themselves do. I was the guy when many of the posters back in Dec 2006 were clowning the PS3 I was saying that when the generation was over Sony would finish ahead of Microsoft with the PS3. Courtdog can attest to that because we constantly argued about it on SOHH. Sony fukked up bad with the PS3 but in the end their brand strength alone brought them back when the price became competitive. They never did catch up in the US but it didn't matter.
When the generation is over I'd wager that the sales between the consoles will be fairly close. under 7-8 million difference in a pool of over 200 million customers.