| EEPiccolo said: Although now I'm curious. Does anybody know, or is there any place where I can find the history of the MSRP of consoles? I couldn't find anything on Wikipedia, and evidently my googlefu is weak on this subject. |
If you check the "console wars" section of Wiki, it gives the price cuts of recent consoles (back to PS1/N64 I think), but you have to do some hunting in various subtopics. Older consoles are harder to find info on. I was able to do it some a few months back, but I doubt I could recreate the work right now. I had to go system by system, I think using "history" and "price cut" as parameters.
Anyway...
I would say that severe cuts ($100 or so) twice between two holidays should raise eyebrows. ( cut shortly before and shortly after a holiday season is not quite as unusual). This gen may be a little harder to tell when new models are rolled out with the price cuts.
If the new 80Gig PS3 gets cut to $499, but also drops the game and controller, I wouldn't consider that too desperate (though it would start to be funny), nor if thy rolled out a "bargain" system before the holidays as that would essentially be replacing the 20 Gig model.
With the 360, they have gone so long without a drop, and now given one so marginal, that I think a second drop before the holidays wouldn't be too far out of line unless it's in the $100 territory. After the holidays, I think a second cut almost certain.
