What does it mean that MS could hold out so much longer on $100 price cut?

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ocnkng said:

TheBigFatJ said:

Krill said:
This will not end well. OT, I think your bet with DMeisterJ is safe barring a major adjustment with VGChartz figures

 

I thought my best last year with NJ5 was fairly safe too, but Nintendo managed to pull a lot of Wiis from their yellow cheek.  You never really know with bets, but it seems like the common trap people fall into in terms of market share is this: "the market share increased 0.1% and therefore it will reach (insert whatever I want to believe here)" rather than looking at the numbers and saying, "wow, the PS3 needs 2 million more sales beyond the standard 1 in 4 of each console sold to reach 25%."

For example, for the Wii to reach 50% by year's end, it needs to outsell the 360 and PS3 /combined/ by more than 200k per month and yet a lot of people think it can happen.

 

What does that mean?

I thought it was pretty obvious.

yellow = typically considered skin color for asians, which Japanese are and Nintendo is a Japanese company.
cheek = in this sense ass cheeks.

Thuse "pull a lot of Wiis from their [yellow asses]" is what he was implying.

Also, please don't say you found that offensive as that is just idiotic. Absolutely nothing in that is demeaning to anyone.

 

OT: Sony realized that they misjudged their target audience and what the majority of them are willing to pay. Obviously 10 million weren't waiting outside stores to pay $500+ for a PS3 as they originally thought. So, they re-evaluated the situation and realized that the $400 price range was a much better starting point. While MS was able to make overall smaller and cuts over time since they were already under the $300 range with their intitial sku.

Even though the PS3 had a bluray player, its perceived value for what its primary purpose is was not worth $500 to most consumers, thankfully for Sony they realized that early and made the right choice.