360 Price Cut & Sales

[Impulsivity]

FinalEvangelion said:
It will probably do enough to ensure that the PS3 doesn't catch up with the 360 before the 720 is released, which I'm sure MS will use to say that "they sold more than the PS3," even if LTD sales will favor the PS3 for start to end of production.

There is a big difference in reasons that Sony/Nintendo are in the gaming industry vs. MS.

Sony/Nintendo are in it to be in the industry and sell games and hardware. MS is in the industry to monopolize the industry and get into a position where they can fix prices like they do in the OS and Office applications.

 

   Haha that is EXACTLY the way I look at it, and why I greatly prefer Nintendo and Sony to Microsoft.  Microsoft always talks a good open source/customer centered type game until they get the monopoly and then suddenly everything is 500 dollars or more and doesn't work right.

 

    As to the 360 price cut there is a point after which no amount of price cuts will help the 360.  There is a base of people who will buy the 360 (the teenage to early 20s gamerboy market) with very few outside of the demo interested at all.  Plenty of mainstream people have embraced Nindendo (wii, SNES, NES) and Sony (PS, PS2) systems, but never have they embraced MS and the 360 really doesn't seem to have any reasons for that to change.  What are the big 360 games?  Oh yah, yet another FPS game and an adult oriented RPG, thats going to bring in the kids and others thinking twice about the Xbox brand.

 

   All MS is doing is reaching its saturation point at about 30 million faster.  They will never reach the kind of main stream market numbers Nintendo and Sony can, they have a bad image outside of their core demographic.  I know a lot of friends buying consoles, many of them female, and the choice is always PS3 or Wii (the women usually pick Wii though thats a function of price as much as anything else, I think Little Big Planet and Home will help shift that a bit) the 360 never even enters into it.  Ditto for anyone I know with kids, the 360 isn't even on the table unless the kid is a boy over 14.