Kantor said:
I'm done crying now. So, 1) I have more than 66 posts, thank you very much. Does your keyboard not have 0's on it? 2) Because they just gave it a price cut last year. Two price cuts in two years = BAD! Also, the Arcade hasn't been around for four and a half years, it used to be that crappy Core thing which was somehow different. It had a different name, though! Likewise, the 40GB's price was not cut at all- it was $400 at launch and $400 when they discontinued it for the showoff 80GB. The 20GB was $500, but they canned that when they realised everyone hated it. But I suppose desperation is a bad word. Perhaps "moving too quickly" would be a better way to decscribe it. They plan on supporting the console for a good five more years, they need to space out their price cuts, or they'll have a 360 that costs less than its games! 3) They lose money on the Arcade, and make money on the Pro and Elite- that's exactly what I was saying. So they want to discourage people from buying the Arcade- they'd much rather they bought the Pro or Elite (though Arcade is better than no 360 at all). Cutting the Arcade's price would not help their cause. If they cut the Pro's price along with it, they'd be losing money on everything, and then they don't want any 360s to be sold so they might as well go work for Sony (I am aware that that logic was flawed, since Sony isn't working for Microsoft yet) 4) There are rumours of everything. There are rumours that Sony is launching a PS3 facebook. There are rumours that there will be no PS4. There are rumours that Michael Jackson is still alive (I'm sure there are, anyway). But my rumour came from a site called Ars Technica and that is an awesome name, so my rumour is better. 5) I would predict a $179 Arcade (it was the PS2's price after $199), a $250 Pro (if and only if they can cut costs in some way) and a $300 Elite, if there is a price cut at all, which I still doubt (see 2)) 6) Damn, I forgot about the controllers. Damned pesky controllers. Er...they could take out the chrome trim, I'm sure that would save them $200 or so. It's a last resort, though- they should take out Blu-ray before they take that out. They could also move to China, where living costs are lower, so they can reduce everybody's salary. |
I once opened up a readers digest to a story that started with "First she cried, and then she got busy" so does that mean you're a girl?
1. You don't deserve those posts, they were all anti Sony, anti PS3 spam messages. You should have been banned long ago for your trolling antics.
2/3. But two severe price cuts spaced two years apart = good? The reason why the 20GB didn't sell better was because it was always in short supply. If people were desperate for a lower priced PS3 and simply could not easily afford the $600 price tag of the 60GB they would have gone for the 20GB, no? However sales statistics really back me up here because that 20GB SKU hardly sold, which is a good thing since mandatory installs would chew through that in now time. I think you're moving too quickly, im not that kinda boy.
With the recession going on people are even more price sensitive than they were a year ago. It makes more sense because of the recession (which also cuts the component costs of the machine too) for them to cut the price again to stimulate demand. They don't want to discourage everyone from buying the Arcade, they just want the people who would have otherwise bought the Arcade who could have easily bought the Premium. I.E. they want people who would have paid a maximum of say $200 to buy an Arcade and everyone else to buy a Premium. Cutting the price of the Xbox 360 makes sense because the profit from services such as Live are truely massive.
4. There are also rumours about you, but MM476 told me to remain silent.
5. Just because the PS2 hit that price doesn't mean the 360 will. Also see 2.
6. You also forgot about Dre.
Tease.
