If Microsoft matches Sony price cut, would the PS3 still do "gangbusters"?

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Seihyouken said:

Jeronimo66 said:

I see the 360 slashing price as low as 150 this year.

If sony drops the price of the ps3 to 299, I think 360 will still outsell ps3 at a 150 entry point.

And if sony drops to 299 this year, I don't expect them to drop the price next year, and since 360 will still be outselling the ps3, I dont expect microsoft to slash the price of the 360 next year either.

A 299 ps3 cannot touch a 149 dollar xbox 360, it just can't.

 

History disagrees. In Q4 2007 when the PS3 dropped its price to $399.99, they closed the gap between them and the 360 ($279.99) down to $120 ($140 later in Europe/Japan). From that time until the 360 had a firesale for the 20GB Pro model and dropped it's price to $299.99 followed up with a huge price cut for all models making the cheapest one $199.99, the 360 didn't manage to outsell the PS3 in weekly, worldwide sales even once. The 360 was incapable of outselling the PS3 at a difference of under $140.

 

 Stopped reading your post after this paragraph.  How is the total reduction of the Arcade/Core and the Pro of $100 in about 3 years a huge price reduction.  Yet the PS3 dropped from $600 to $400 in less than 1 year.  Using comments like firesale and huge to describe the total of $100 price reduction on the 360 hardware shows the bias and shows where your going.