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nightsurge on 19 March 2009
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Rpruett said:
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.

 

Really?  I just bought one of high quality brand new for $160 at Best Buy even.

Oh and the Blu-Ray players will decrease differently than a blu-ray DRIVE in the PS3.  The Blu-Ray drive in the PS3 only costs about $80-90, while blu-ray players are still $160-500+.  Blu-Ray players will therefore lower in price "faster" than teh blu-ray drive in the PS3 because 10% of even the cheapest model of player is still more than 10% of the Blu-Ray drive in the PS3.

Seriously... think things through man.

And since we are speaking like we know the future, I say that Microsoft CAN drop the price $100 if they wanted to.  They aer likely to make the switch to Valhalla (single 65nm chip for both CPU/GPU) which will drastically reduce heat and costs.  I also say that any PS3 price cut is likely only to be $50, and will still not overtake the 360's sales.  I also say that Microsoft will cut again at the perfect time for the holidays so as to have the best price at the perfect time to absolutely crush the PS3 again.

Oh... and from our last convo where you said integrated graphics "could easily play Mass Effect" on PC.  I won't start bring all the info I gathered into this thread.  Just remember that chart of video cards I posted, and how the integrated 7100 was actually much worse than the minimum required 6600GT that you so kindly included as the minimum spec.