megaman79 on 02 January 2009
NJ5 said:
megaman79 said:
TheBigFatJ said:
megaman79 said:
This is the answer. Sony CANNOT match the price MS can drop their price to. s--t i hate anti competitive low ball pricing mutha fubars. Put small business owners out of business because they can charge much less than the average price. This is exactly what MS will do.
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Microsoft isn't lowballing. They're probably going to post another profitable year for the 360 which means they're not lowering the price artificially. If anything, Sony is since they're losing money.
$199/$299 is not a low price for a console into its 4th year. The PS2 hit that price point a lot earlier. How is Microsoft being unreasonable here? What we're really seeing here is that the consoles have not dropped in price as they should have.
I like the competition. It makes console gaming cheaper for everyone.
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Its not fair when one company deliberatly prices their product cheaper with the aim of eliminating their competition bcoz they cant price that product at the same price. Its anti competitive and there should be laws against it unless your happy shopping at starbucks, mcdonalds, wallmart and target for the rest of your life.
I like netscape, MS used this same tactic.
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So you're saying companies should all have the same prices?
If Microsoft is making profit from the 360, they're not being anti-competitive, period. It is Sony which is lowballing their prices.
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No and this is a different circumstance obviously, 2 big businesses but i hate to think that what happened to Sega will happen to Nintendo due to the bigger companies ability to absorb losses.
btw i am aware that Nintendo should be fine for a few yrs. My point is still relevent.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
