Showdown: is the Xbox 360 price cut desperation or boldness?

[DMeisterJ]

badgenome said:

DMeisterJ said:

badgenome said:

DMeisterJ said:
Desperation. Boldness would have been if the price drop came before sony pwned them in July NPD sales with the fire sale.

Yeah, because they surely couldn't have been planning this well in advance. It's not like they haven't been banging on for at least a year now about wanting to have a $200 SKU or anything.

It's not desperate. It's not bold. It's just an overdue price cut.

Yeah, they planned it.  They sure did. 

They launched the sixty gig at 350 only to drop the price fifty bucks for anyone who purchased it in the last six weeks.

Companies always do that huh?  Instead of listing the Pro at 300 until it sold out, and sent out the 60 gig pro at 300, let some poor fools buy the 60 gig at 350 so they could have waited six weeks to hear about a price drop.

Yep that was on purpose, MS screwing over customers.

I can't tell if you're being ironic or not, but I do believe it was planned. I seem to remember at least a few people suggesting this is how it would go down, too. The 20 GB pricing clearance price seemed to fit, but that was only $20 more than a $279 Arcade. So $199/$299/$399 makes sense.

I guess every time a company slashes prices, it's screwing over customers. What illogic.

 

No, every time a company launches a system at a price, then price drops weeks later it is screwing over customers.  It's complete and utter BS that it was planned.  And yes, the pro was priced close to the Arcade, but what you have to understand was that was supposed to be a limited time.  So those who rushed out to buy a 300 dollar 20 gig pro, thinking they got a deal, are screwed out of forty extra gigs of space by what?  Six weeks.  And those that bought a 350 60 gig pro are screwed out of fifty bucks for a price drop on an item they bought six weeks ago.

Unless M$ planned on screwing it's customers over, it was desperation.