[Lucid:]

With the PS3, Sony justified the higher price with the fact that it was a better system and could play Blu-Ray discs. Sony got what they wanted with Blu-ray winning over HDDVD, but the console didn't do nearly as well as the Xbox.

To contrast, this year when Sony initially announced/revealed the PS4, Microsoft had to push back the reveal of the Xbox One because it was so much embarrassingly worse than the PS4. It's more of an entertainment box than a gaming console, but nobody who doesn't play the games it is offering will buy it so it's not a good strategy. It was smart of Sony to keep things the same as far as used games and online mode. Microsoft was totally going to stand their ground until they realized that Xbox preorders were totally abysmal, not because they cared about the outrage of all the gamers. I feel like they have to prove to everyone that they are worthy of being trusted again.