Sony vs Microsoft... Consumer Wins!

It's a pretty well-known fact that the Japanese market is fiercely loyal to Sony and the Playstation 3, but on the other side of the coin, Sony has a new respect for the foothold Microsoft has taken with the Xbox 360 in North America (way out in front with a product base of 10 million).

The Playstation 3's impressive cost coupled with the hesitance of game developers to throw themselves into producing for the PS3, is making it increasingly difficult to penetrate The 360's foothold on North America (we have noticed an awful lot of new PS2 games coming out, in spite of being a last-gen console) . Microsoft is in a position to make matters tougher by cutting the price on the Xbox 360. As it stands, the game division of Sony is expected to lose more than $1.6 Billion this fiscal year... a price cut could hurt them, significantly.

Although a price war (on the surface) is neat for consumers, we would hate to see Sony get banged up too badly on this. We have enjoyed thousands of hours of great entertainment on our Playstations, and would hate to see the healthy competition replace by a Microsoft monopoly, in spite of being big 360 fans.

Wanna stay neutral? Buy Nintendo Wii, hah!