PS3 Strategy is Starting to Pay Off

[Yakuzaice]

TRios_Zen said:

Xoj said:

NJ5 said:

Sony could afford to wait to cut the price
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The machine has so much staying power that Sony can afford to slowly cut the price

Is that why they dropped the price by 200 € / 33% in Europe before the PS3 even had its first holiday season?

If these are slow price drops it should be amusing to see fast price drops.

 

those are small price drops, it have 500$ - 400$ -300$ price cuts and sony as a whole didn't loose money until the depression start to hit hard.

and compared to the 360 it have 2 price cuts in europe in 2008- they are small.

In US, PS3 launced at $599, is now $299...$300 off in ~3 years (highest priced model).  For comparison the 360 launched at $399 (elite launched later at $479) and is now available for $299 (again highest priced model)...$100 to $180 off in ~3.5 years.

As I don't live in Europe I won't pretend to know the price drops there, but in US, Sony's price drops have neither been small nor slow.

Highest priced model is $350 for PS3.  Even so it isn't really akin to the 60/80 GB BC models.  Actually the 160 GB still sells for $400, so that is the most expensive.

Since you are comparing the highest price to the lowest, then the 360 also halved its price in about exactly the same time frame.  Even more if you factor in the elite.