I've given up on Sony taking 2nd place

[Comrade Tovya]

Kzoellner said:

Comrade Tovya said:

Kzoellner said:
Also think about this. the box has had to basically pull out everything in its bag to keep competing with PS3. I mean hack and slash prices. using every game idea out there to take control. if ps3 dropped price with the game line up they have coming out M$ can only drop the price until they are broke to stay alive... The PS3 has not put up a bad fight. for only being two years old.

 

First and foremost, MS is never going to go broke over the 360.  They can give away 360s for $50 each and they'd do just fine...the Xbox divison is a very small piece of the MS empire.

But more importantly, don't discount price as a simple "gimmick".  In todays miserable credit market, price is as important as ever.

And I don't think anyone is saying that Sony is dead or second rate.  The PS3 is definitely the superior console... but it costs more than the competition and Sony doesn't have the ability to drop the PS3 much lower at the current moment.  I drive an Escalade, and the comfort and superior technology in it makes it a bargain to me... because I can afford to drop $60,000 on a vehicle and pay out the butt for insurance for it.  But it doesn't matter, because the average family can't... that's why they buy compact vehicles that get 30-miles to the gallon.

So I can argue with people all day long that the Escalade is a bargain for the buck, but they don't have the money to buy it so my arguement will fall on deaf ears... they'll still buy an sub-par, cheap sub-sompact.

 

congrats on your escalade????  Most of america before this time of troubles couldn't afford an escalade either.  Dude people have money.  If people who want to spend money they will.  This is not the great depression.  If i wanted to go out and buy an escalade i could too.  The choices people are making is on their own.  I never said microsoft would go broke.  I am saying if PS3 dropped the price microsoft will fight to the death it seems.    We all know that PS cannot drop the prices anymore.  

 

 

Cool deal, that just means that we are on the same page.

Like I've alway said... the PS3 is the better console in the technology arena (and really I think the $399 price is a bargain for what you get).   Most people however, don't want to spend that much to dip their feet into the entry waters of the PS3 world.  They will however spend about $200.00 to do the same in the XB360 world.

And don't discount the current economic crisis.  The great depression wasn't an overnight phenomenom either.  It took 3 years after the crash prior to the actual depression starting.

This credit crisis is a real threat to the economy.  I have 800+ FICO score, and keep a virual zero balance on my cards (always pay in full) but even my cards are not getting their credit increases like they were a year ago.  After the holiday season is over, it's going to get worse before it gets better.

Long story short, people want to spend less money... and really that is a rule that transcends economic troubles.  Yet, in a weak economic atmosphere it only becomes that much more important.  The consumer confidence levels are at the lowest they've been this decade, and that equates into people spending less money.