Ender said:
phisheep said:
I'm not saying it does. Just that it might do. My reasoning goes like this:
At launch and up to recently, Xbox 360 seen as in direct competition with PS3. Market perception - with the exception of blu-ray, which hasn't had quite the impact that Sony thought - was largely that the two were functionally equivalent, but MS less pricy. So, less money for about the same thing. Gives sales benefit to MS. So far so good.
With recent price drops and advertising, Xbox 360 is deliberately placing itself to fight the Wii on price in the expanded marketplace. Trouble is, it doesn't do everything the Wii does. Doesn't have the motion control, doesn't have the breadth of games, doesn't even look cute. So, market perception that it is the console for people who can't even afford a Wii.
And that is a bad place to be. Even in a recession many people prefer to shop in Tesco rather than Aldi (or whatever the transatlantic equivalent is), because Aldi is just a drop too far.
So I'm suggesting that the price cut may have significantly changed Xbox 360's market perception for the worse.
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I was laughing the whole time I was reading this.
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