Analysis: X360 underachieving and why it won't get a price-cut in 2009

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@xbox fans All you talk about is gap this, gap that, 360 doing better than the first Xbox, yadda-yadda... Tired all whining songs to deviate from the fact the cheapest console in the market is barely outperforming its previous year (someone around here posted 23% up?) and all you want is to compare it to the PS3 which is down YOY by around 20%...that's alright, but the PS3 is not the one selling at $200 and hasn't had a price-cut since almost 2 years.

As your own "Gap chart" shows, the gap was plummeting down during all of 2008. Then the 360 got a price-cut and in a matter of 3 months it outsold the PS3 by more than 2 million units (X-mas time). And one guy around here posted the 360 is not in mass market price 'cause it's just the Arcade selling for that (the least desirable version, as he called it) , LMFAO. You people make the most convenient spins for everything, now you're saying the $200 Arcade has barely anything to do with Microsoft turn-around, when in fact it sold like crazy last X-mas (and I didn't bother taking that into account for my analysis, and I just kept going with the Arcade sales representing 30% of all sales for that period -it's obviously more profitable for MS to sell more Pro units at $300- ).

The whole point of the thread is to show how the Xbox 360 is underacheiving for a $200 priced product, and how the price-cut effect was short-lived and Microsoft hasn't capitalized on it beyond a X-mas saving last resort. 8 million, 9 million gap, even with 1 whole year advantage (and 1.5 year for EU), selling always 50% and 33% cheaper, for that THE GAP SHOULD BE 15 MILLION+ RIGHT NOW! If that gap chart shows anything, is that Sony will do the same they did in 2008 as soon as they cut the price this year. Microsoft has cut the price twice (2007, and 2008) and they haven't buried the PS3. Oh, but you say Microsoft can counter with a price cut of their own this year. $250 and $150 this year, really? Let's go crazy and say they do. The PS3 was eating up the gap in 2008 priced a $400/$500 vs the 360 priced at $280/$350/$450. Who's to say they can't do a lot better priced $300 versus a $250 X360 Pro? Everybody knows the entry model PS3 offers more value (see: features) than any Pro model MS has offered (always larger HDD, video/audio/data connectivity, blu-ray and free online) that's a fact and I won't go into discussion about it. Oh, but how about a $150 arcade this year? yeah, and the Wii is fad...seriously, you think companies do business like fanboys do war in these forums? a $150 Arcade won't happen this year, and if it does for the sake of Microsoft I hope they destroy the PS3 this X-mas, because if they don't they would've dug themselves into a hole next to the old Xbox.