thx1139 said:
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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't see your point. Are you trying to argue that Microsoft's price drop wasn't huge? Considering that they issued a meager $20 off the Arcade in 2007 and most are expecting a $50 price cut from Microsoft at most this year, last year's price cut WAS huge. Furthermore, you feel the need to point out that Sony had two massive price drops in 2007 even though I never insinuated that they didn't. That shows your bias and explains why you felt the need to stop reading.
