Lord N said:
Shit, I could have told you that the 360 would see a price drop soon. MS had to do something to counter the PS3 price drop and to divert attention from the hardware issues, so it wasn't hard to see this coming. On the other hand, two price drops within a span of three months would be downright retarded. The media would have a ball spinning it, and they'd have two SKU's on the market(one of which is probably still losing money) for nothing. Lastly, the price isn't even the reason its sales have been sluggish all year. It also has to do with its one-dimensional software library. If MS were going to do a $100 cut, they've have done it all at once across all SKU's, especially if they wanted to clear out inventory. Having three SKU's on the market at once and then decreasing the price difference between the Premium and the Core and increasing the price between the Premium and the Elite is just dumb-da-dumb-dumb-dumb, and is almost on par with the Genesis/Sega CD/32X bungling. |
first of PS3 is not doing a price drop but a clearance price.... MS is doing a real one not to clear a model but to clear a generation of chips.... so I don't think a reaction to the PS3 price drop is the main reason
no it's not dumb... why should they cut it more and make less money if their market analist told them the stock will be cleared in time for the falcon.. and then do a another cut on the falcon because it cost them less money to produce.... it makes perfect sense to me IMHO especialy business wise to make more profit, which is the purpose of a corporation in the first place
