Will the PS3 fall below 15% marketshare in Americas in 2009?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

seece said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

seece said:

CrazzyMan said:

You know its not complusary for a company to drop its products price every year right? Sony need to make a profit sometime you know.

AND Sony ISN`T droping price already For MORE than 1 year. =)
Now you GET IT??? :)

Yeah, tell me how do you think Sony are going to pull a price cut off? and still make profit on the PS3?

 

I don't know whether a $299 PS3 would make profit or loss, but in a few months, following cost to manufacturers drop of HDD and BD, a $299 PS3 will gain or lose roughly the same as a $199 XB360 Arcade. If the latter is feasible and sustainable, so is the former, you must live with this, you don't wanna pass for a delusional Sony hateboy, do you? 

 

Except you're forgetting exchange rates, which don't affect Microsoft in this case.

 

I'm not forgetting them. Are XB's built in USA or in Far East and imported? Anyway USA isn't the sole market for all three consoles, there is a compensation amongst the markets. And Sony applies an equivalence $1=1€ for EU price that depending on periods exceeds from a little to largely the true VAT overprice, this is a big advantage for it, MS is more honest regarding the equivalence applied for EU price and it also sells more in USA than in EU, so, while it suffers less in USA for a weak $, it also gains less from strong €.