Cueil said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
forevercloud3000 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
forevercloud3000 said:
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it is true that MS could drop price but I highly doubt it. Here is why. MS already cut all the systems prices along with the arcade last year. If they are to be gauged correctly MS would be in the same predicament SOny was in in 07. 360 is definitely cheaper to make then PS3 but not THAT much cheaper that they can do another price cut so soon.
As for Sony's current predicament. I think that the cuts are more so for the other sides of sony such as the its tv and hardware departments. Sony is split into so many different parts which is probably the reason of most of its financial woes. I am thinking alot of these cuts and restructuring will start there. Also This means they will have more viable funds due to them juggling less things. I am geussing more funds will be being pumped into the two most important things for ALL divisions of Sony...
PS3
BluRay
These are the most important because they feed into funds for all the other divisions such as movies, HD tvs, etc.
There is nothing Sony can really do with all the mounds of bad press streaming over the internet besides counteract it with positive press with all of the improvements they are doing over the last few years. |
Um....MS broke even so of course they can drop the price if they felt like it. They know what is within their power.
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If MS is braking even as we speak, that means that if they drop price that they would start to lose money which is exactly what was happening to the PS3, which is exactly what I said. If MS could just cut price whenever they felt like it they would have done one right alongside Sony's price cut last year. But they cant, because thats not the situation.
Sony is no longer simply breaking even and has room for a price cut, as well as supreme market pressure for them to have one regardless.
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Dude...Microsoft broke even in 2008. They are currently making profit off of the system. The PS3 is the only system waiting to make profit and 2009 is the scheduled year that they will.
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I don't know... what was their recent model revision? I know the Arcade got some internal memory, but did they do anything else to cut cost besides the late release of the Jasper? I'm guessing the one that is comming out this year is going to combine the CPU and GPU and shrink the package... 360Slim?
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Yes, the recent model revision was the Jasper version. The Arcade lacks an ethernet cable, headset, HD, The only chords are composite. That in itself cuts about $200 in production costs right off the bat. I believe the CPU and GPU already share the same amount of memory. The slim will probably change it up even more. The question I must ask is, how will the hard drive fit in a 360 slim? It's too large.
