No significant sales boost despite 360 price cuts, says EEDAR

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hardyhar said:

Slimebeast said:

Seece said:
It's not meant to boost sales, just keep them sustained. If they can do what they did last holiday season then they're doing great.

I mean, in four years X360 only has dropped $100 (from $299 to $199 and $399 to $299), while PS3 in only three years has dropped $300 - from $599 to $299.

The Elite was $480 at launch in the US, so that's a drop of $180.

 

Sony's losses since the PS3 was launched: -

2007 - $2,483,437,762

2008 - $1,330,793,265

2009 - $624,981,361

And yeah, you can say "but MS has made a loss too", but they don't have 2 other profitable consoles on sale at the same time. The PS3 has cost them billions and the Slim is going to lose them even more.

 

And Microsoft isn't funding one of the largest collections of first and second party development studios in the industry. Nor have they taken it upon themselves to avoid passing the costs of their online network onto the consumer and paid for it in full out of their own pocket.

It's easy to spin things one way or the other, but none of this has anything to do with how the 360 will sell this holiday.