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makingmusic476 on 15 September 2007
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Lost tears of Kain said:
makingmusic476 said:

Since it has Wi-Fi, it won't be gimped like the 20GB was. Good stuff. This should sell very well. Maybe it'll drop in price even further for MGS4, etc.

Let's just hope Sony keeps dropping the price every chance they get until it's at least the price of the premium 360. As long as they break even on the manufacturing of these units from here on out, they should be able to sell enough of these suckers so that they'll make enough back on games sales to become profitable.

I'm sure they'll lose a good bit on every 40GB at first, but they'll break even on them soon enough. As long as they don't get complacent and try to make a profit on the actual systems sold, they should manage to price match the 360 eventually and start gaining ground on MS.

Also, a price drop for a territory other than NA would probably help, too. Who knows when they'll actually get around to doing that though...


Err, how does 40 gigs add up to dropping the price 200 bucks?

Also i dont think MS would twiddle their thumbs while this was occuring, you could expect another price drop from MS


$100, not $200.  The 80GB will drop to $499 once the 60s are completely gone, count on that.  It will probably be announced at TGS. 

I'm not sure how they'll manage to shave off $100 with just a 40GB HDD.  If wi-fi is still included, the only other thing they could get rid of is the card readers.  Maybe they'll keep Motorstorm packed in with the 80GB?  Then it will essentially be the same situation we have now, just replace the 60GB with a 40GB and shave off $100 across the board.

Also, I'd expect MS to ride the Halo 3 hype train for a while, grabbing as many sales from that as they can before dropping the price another $50 or so. 

As for MS further down the road, they'll probably want to keep the actual 360s profitable.  They have yet to make a profit from their Xbox division, and I'm sure they want to keep making money off of each box they sell while they can.  Assuming Sony cuts the price of the ps3 at every opportunity that they have, they could catch up to the price of the 360 over time, assuming MS tries to keep the 360s themselves profitable, thus not dropping the price near as often.