| nightsurge said: Last year after the PS3 pricecut, MANY people bought it for the incredible blu-ray player value it represented. Now that blu-ray players are so much cheaper and you can get a 360 + Blu-Ray for the cost of a PS3, the PS3 lost it's momentum. By the time the PS3 can cut the price by another $100, Microsoft can cut by $50 at the least, and maintain a $150 price lead. Not to mention the PS3 still will not be in the mass market price of $200 which will continue to hurt them regardless of how "close" they are getting to the 360's price. |
Wait....Weren't you the one that stated that according to Moore's law that the cost of hardware decrease at an equal rate? If Blu-Ray players are dropping rapidly, the cost for the Blu-Ray inside the PS3 will also drop rapidly at a proportional ratio. Which aids for further profit on the PS3?
And you will be hard pressed to find a Blu-Ray player (Of the lowest quality for under 200 bucks).
The PS3 has outsold the 360 to this point in it's life cycle from essentially day one and it's cheapest model is still at the original launch price of the 360. Hitting that $200 price point will still be big for the system, but it still has several levels of price cuts that it will be able to go through to continue to push sales. The 360 has had the $200 advantage since their recent price drop. The 360 didn't have the $200 price advantage for most of the 2008 year.
When Sony drops the price on the PS3 again, it will continue where it left off in earlier 2008. (And it still hasn't hit that glorious sweet spot of $200 yet). Microsoft will not drop the price another 100 dollars. At best you will see $50 price drop which will compete and probably bring sales very close but not take away the sales momentum of the PS3.
