shams on 18 April 2007
| FishyJoe said: Has a new console ever had it prices cut so quickly? It's only been a month.
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Yes. This happened to the Xbox1 when it launched in Australia.
It launched at around $800AU. The gamecube was around $400, and the PS2 around the same price.
It sold well at launch - for a week or two. Then the sales vanished.
MS cut $200 off the retail price (in one swoop!), and ended up sending out "game" vouchers to everyone who had bought it in the first 2 weeks to compensate them (the vouchers didn't do much - sort of allowed purchase of one free MS game - crappy titles only).
MS had to do this, as the current price made the machine completely uncompetitive (regardless of features).
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Sony may well be forced to do the same. This situation stinks, I think retailers have been done over by Sony. And as the article says, no retailer wants a LARGE quantity of 400pound devices sitting in their storeroom.
Gesta Non Verba
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