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Slimebeast on 23 January 2008

A price drop just before GTA4 is logical, but since the launch date is totally unknown and the game keeps getting delayed over and over again I can see 2 scenarios:

1. If there still ain't no release date known by February, then MS will announce a price drop for March (because the X360 needs a price drop urgently). That might be a tiny $50 cut, but then they'll try to slay Sony when GTA4 finally arrives in ealry summer by dropping the Pro to $250.

2. Release date of GTA4 becomes more clear by February. Then a more logical lowered price for the X360 Pro would be $279 (and Arcade $199, Elite $349) a couple of weeks before the release date of GTA4 (but no later than May, because if the game gets delayed into the summer, MS will choose scenario 1).

Forget a Sony price drop in the first half of the year.



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brute on 23 January 2008
leo-j said:
@Manus

Sony said it themselves they are going to try targetting wii and gain sales.

well they have to if they wanna have a chance to win



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I LOVE GIGGS on 23 January 2008

in my country
X360 pro with to games + halo = 450$
X360 Elite with 2 games + halo = 550$

PS3 40G with no game = 460$
I don't know why .. but we don't have 80 G



Bonafide732 on 23 January 2008

this is actually a real funny battle between the two companies... if one drops the price around gta and the other... then the latter company might lose out on sales..



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BengaBenga on 23 January 2008

I seriously doubt a Sony pricecut will happen. They would have lowered the price with $300,- within a year and a half on a console that lost an additional $200,- per console. Sony might have lowered the production costs, but I don't think with $500. Plus the research and development costs have to be returned.

All depends on their figures. If the losses of SCE are very big, I doubt Sony and its shareholders want to take more loss/less profit of each sold console. Don't forget that games like Ratchet and Heavenly sword didn't make money and SCE has a lot of developers working on projects that don't seem to make money for a while.



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Jandre002 on 23 January 2008
Slimebeast said:
A price drop just before GTA4 is logical, but since the launch date is totally unknown and the game keeps getting delayed over and over again I can see 2 scenarios:

1. If there still ain't no release date known by February, then MS will announce a price drop for March (because the X360 needs a price drop urgently). That might be a tiny $50 cut, but then they'll try to slay Sony when GTA4 finally arrives in ealry summer by dropping the Pro to $250.

2. Release date of GTA4 becomes more clear by February. Then a more logical lowered price for the X360 Pro would be $279 (and Arcade $199, Elite $349) a couple of weeks before the release date of GTA4 (but no later than May, because if the game gets delayed into the summer, MS will choose scenario 1).

Forget a Sony price drop in the first half of the year.

HAHA ooohhhh yeaaah.  The Arcade is going to get to $199 alright. Lol. The PS3 40gb costs maybe $110 dollars more than the Xbox360 Premium to manufacture. Add that to the fact that every PS system outsells the Xbox360 worldwide and is more profitable and what do you get?

The Xbox go from breaking even/nearly breaking even to losing $60 per console. Why would they do that, when having a price advantage already still doesn't get them sales. They might drop the Arcade to $229, but Sony will drop is Microsoft drops. Then it comes down to which console is desired more in the 200-300 range, and we know the answer to that already.



Legend11 on 23 January 2008
Jandre002 said:
Slimebeast said:
A price drop just before GTA4 is logical, but since the launch date is totally unknown and the game keeps getting delayed over and over again I can see 2 scenarios:

1. If there still ain't no release date known by February, then MS will announce a price drop for March (because the X360 needs a price drop urgently). That might be a tiny $50 cut, but then they'll try to slay Sony when GTA4 finally arrives in ealry summer by dropping the Pro to $250.

2. Release date of GTA4 becomes more clear by February. Then a more logical lowered price for the X360 Pro would be $279 (and Arcade $199, Elite $349) a couple of weeks before the release date of GTA4 (but no later than May, because if the game gets delayed into the summer, MS will choose scenario 1).

Forget a Sony price drop in the first half of the year.

HAHA ooohhhh yeaaah.  The Arcade is going to get to $199 alright. Lol. The PS3 40gb costs maybe $110 dollars more than the Xbox360 Premium to manufacture. Add that to the fact that every PS system outsells the Xbox360 worldwide and is more profitable and what do you get?

The Xbox go from breaking even/nearly breaking even to losing $60 per console. Why would they do that, when having a price advantage already still doesn't get them sales. They might drop the Arcade to $229, but Sony will drop is Microsoft drops. Then it comes down to which console is desired more in the 200-300 range, and we know the answer to that already.


It will be interesting to see if Sony will be able to do any more pricecuts in the first half of the year.  I think they literally did as much as they could late last year in order to not get completely destroyed during X'mas 07 and that they won't be able to have another price cut until the end of this year.