Challenge: Xbox 360 outsells the Wii and PS3

As it stands, the 360 has sold about as many units as the PS3 and far fewer than the Wii.

With a PoD of 2003, how can the 360 come out on top?
 
Before I get too in depth I'd like to apologize. I'm on my phone, rather than my laptop.....

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Getting the 360 to sell better than the Playstation would be fairly easy. All you need to do is weaken the PS3 or have the Xbox do SLIGHTLY better in Asia or Europe.

You can manage this by:

1.) PSN has a subscription fee.
The PSN being free was, and is still a reason PS3's are bought.

2.) Have certain PS3 exclusives hit the Xbox too, the earlier the better.
MGS4 could easily do this. You'll have to change the game a bit. From what I remember, MGS4 was near FILLING a double layer Blu-Ray disk.....

3.) Keep PS3 prices high.
It doesn't need to be $600, but being a fair bit more expensive WILL slow things down.

The Wii is harder, but there's a way to do it.
I'll post on it later though, I've got classes in the morning.:(

Oh, but I will say, if we ruin Nintendo's run enough in the 7th gen, Nintendo may leave the console business and go the way of SEGA. Three bad generations in a row could prove to be disasterous.
 
The Wii is harder, but there's a way to do it.
I'll post on it later though, I've got classes in the morning.:(

Simple, they don't come up with the motion controls and go for a more traditional console which doesn't stack up to the 360 or PS3.

As for the 360 and its DVD Player, I'd suggest going with a HD-DVD player for games but that could have drastic consequences in itself increasing price and the mere effect of putting the HD-DVD in the 360 may alter the format war there. Microsoft will have to burden a lot of the cost like Sony did with the Blu-Ray drive initially. But you may solve a massive problem the 360 has later in its life.

You could make GTA IV an outright exclusive as well, at least initially. They had a deal for the DLC, just rework it so the entire game is a timed exclusive for a year.

I'm not too clued up on Japanese Gaming culture, but to this day the 360 is a flop over there. Solve that problem and you've easily evened things up as well.

Just a few suggestions, can't think of any more at the moment.
 
What saved the original Xbox was the Halo series, and I think more or better Halo games could do it (being that Halo has so much prestige now).
 
As it stands, the 360 has sold about as many units as the PS3 and far fewer than the Wii.

With a PoD of 2003, how can the 360 come out on top?

North Korea develops nuclear bombs, declares war on South Korea and Japan, and bombs them with the nuclear bombs. The Nintendo and Sony headquarters, along with other important Japanese and South Korean places, are destroyed. The North Koreans are then quickly defeated.
 
Avoiding the Red Ring fiasco could definitely have shifted a few more units, but the big thing I'm thinking is make Xbox live free, or at least have the free version not as stripped down (have no online play, but support for the apps like Netflix and IE)
 
Avoiding the Red Ring fiasco could definitely have shifted a few more units, but the big thing I'm thinking is make Xbox live free, or at least have the free version not as stripped down (have no online play, but support for the apps like Netflix and IE)

Flip that, no support for apps but free online play. Also put the Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player in that would def help them out. Still go with the original launch price though. And never go up on subscription prices. All of this would have saved the 360.
 

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I'm not too clued up on Japanese Gaming culture, but to this day the 360 is a flop over there. Solve that problem and you've easily evened things up as well.

Idolmaster and Ace Combat 6 (both 360 exclusives) as launch titles, with a Gundam game coming out before the holidays (with a pair of Zaku-themed bundles, one in standard green, and the other in Char Aznable colors.)

There.

We did it.
 
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