DMeisterJ said:
starcraft said:
Magnific0 said:
I stand by this unrefutable truth:
Microsoft already made their huge move (under $200 X360), and they WON'T have (read CAN'T without mutilating their Games's Division) a price cut in ANY territory until very likely 2010. If during the next 12 months they drop the price of any of their SKUs by as little as $50 it'll be undoubtedly a fire sale, 'cause no one, NONE, would reduce the price of a product as such an alarming fast rate it it wasn't deep in trouble.
However, Sony still has a price-cut move left and I believe they're saving it for next-year when Microsoft won't be able to do nothing of the kind to counter it. MS is definitely expecting to bank hard on this Christmas, specially with Gears of War 2 gracing their holiday lineup. Gears 2 + low hardware price = winning combo, no? We will see January 1st if Microsoft won convincingly this X-mas or if on the contrary, their calculations will cost them an early exit from this generation war.
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Your unrefutable truth is supremely refutable.
Microsoft's game division made a substantial sum of money last quarter, whereas the PS3 lost a TRUCKLOAD.
Even with all the cuts they have already made, Microsoft is in a better position to cut prices AGAIN than Sony is right now.
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True, but it's hard to draw any clear conclusions from how much money the 360 really made, seeing that it's all lumped into the EDD, who knows what the 360 really did. Well, MS does, but we don't know.
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I think general consensus has always been that the Xbox 360 division make up the overwhelming majority of profit from EED. Doesn't the Zune lose Microsoft money?
In Sony's case however, it is the opposite. We KNOW the PS2 and PSP are cash cows, and yet the PS3 eats into ALL their profit AND still causes several hundred million dollar loses.
