No significant sales boost despite 360 price cuts, says EEDAR

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Seece 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.

Inpossible. Holiday will be minus 1 million compared last year. Maybe more.

They shuld have droped $179 and $249 in my opinion. But sadly it seems it's harder to make the X360 profitable than the PS3.

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.

Few wrong points there Slimebeast. It's not impossible whatsoever. But it's very likely they will fall YOY, will have to see how aggressive Microsoft is with the advertising.

Elite launched at US$479.99 and the Arcade (Core?) launched at US$299 (Arcade - US$279)

Difference is Microsoft are making money off the 360 and Sony are making a loss.

That's because the components making up the PS3 cost more and those in the 360 cost less, and the 360 design lacks things the PS3 has and the 360 breaks down a lot more due to whatever configuration MS has chosen.

Take your pick: better hardware, or being able to claim that your fav company is profiting on that hardware?  To me, there's no question, but maybe you don't feel the same.