| Slimebeast said: Squilliam, basically I agree with u. I believe in a $100 PS3 price drop in March 2009 and a year with 12 million consoles sold. And by next summer when PS3 is slaughtering the X360 in weekly sales ppl will say how genious Sony were with their pricing strategy (assumin MS only drops by a measly $50 again). |
They don't need to drop $100 straight away. Its likely that a large number of people, maybe even a majority of potential PS3 customers still see the PS3 as the superior good and the Xbox 360 an inferior good. So therefore a ratio of even $250 vs $350 between the premium and 80gb PS3 is likely to come out more in Sonys favour than you would otherwise expect.
My earlier prediction I made on Steam to Makingmusic was this, before the sudden bad news anyway:
They cut the price $50 to $350 early in 2009 in the United States because thats where they need to take action the most. They offset the pricecut with revenue from games like Killzone 2 coming early next year and stem the most important area of bleeding. Then in late 2009 they cut the price again to $300? (maybe) and the price in Europe to $350 Euros. Its a reverse of what happened with the Xbox 360 in 2008 essentially. I don't know if they can do just that next year but I believe they can afford to wait until late 2009 before making any moves. If they don't make any moves in 2009 on price then 2010 is lost for them.
Tease.
