| Just_Ben said: Hi, i highly doubt that. The Core is bad deal, and still will be at Christmas. As for the PS3, yes $500 is a big deal. But look at the last Christmas of the 360 had a pretty good one in America, and it had a price tag of $400 on it. Thats not much of a difference. By your argument the PS3 shouldn't sell right know. It has nearly no big games and costs more than $100 more as the 360. And it still sells, not good but not that bad compared to the 360 either. These $100+ will not matter that much at Christmas. I can see the PS3 outperform the 360 in Europe by 2:1 if the price drops 100 €, because it didn't had a Christmas yet in Europe, and for many early adopter thats the time they can buy such high price articles. That would give the PS3 a lead at Christmas WW this year (I expect the 360 to win in USA). |
I never said the core was a good deal, but we are talking about uninformed consumers and when they know they need to get a 360 for Billy and one is much cheaper..well I think we know which one they will buy.
As for trying to translate my X-mas argument to right now, are you insane? How does my argument of people not wanting to spend all of their X-mas budget on one item translate to summer? There is a big difference between people spending this kind of cash on themselves and grandma/grandpa/mom/dad spending it at X-mas. Parents don't really buy there 23+ year old children consoles anymore so its parents buying for teens mostly.
As for the 360 last X-mas, I'm not sure why you got the idea that it was $400 last X-mas since the core was $299. I would consider $300 to be the upper limit of what most parents will spend at X-mas.
Ok lets keep this all in perspective now: I am not saying that neither console will sell this holiday, I am simply saying the price for the PS3 is still to high to see large numbers. The 360 on the other hand could see large numbers, but only on the back of the cheapest SKU available. So once again, yes they will sell, and they will see normal holiday boosts. But no they will not see spectacular blowout sales.
Edit: Let me just add that not only do I think price still matters at X-mas, I think it actually matters more but in a different way. During X-mas the price matters not for a decision of "Do I buy?" but for the decision of "Which do I buy?". This goes hand in hand with what MS is saying here actually as you will see potential PS3 buyers scoff at the price and get a 360/Wii and potential 360 buyers could very well do the same picking up a Wii...but I think it will be a much much more significant PS3 -> 360/Wii trend than 360 -> Wii trend. Once again, for the rabid fanboys I feel I have to point out that I am not saying this is going to happen in all or even most cases, but it WILL happen and it will happen enough to make a differnce in WW sales this Holiday.
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