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Icyedge on 25 November 2009
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Avinash_Tyagi said:
Icyedge said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:

Are your sure about that, lol, what we saw is that reducing the price did raise sales, and quite a lot, and that was only a limited reduction, a permanent cut WW would raise sales much more.

As for Sony, its only assumes that the 360 price cut would not cut into its sales, likelihood is that it would, see as the game titles got released this year, most would be shared across the two consoles, the lower price od the 360 would drive more sales to the 360 and away from the PS3 and over time, any momentum from the slim would die down, eventually the PS3 would be back down, while the 360 absorbed the sales.

Your not getting the principle of a promotion do you? Im gonna repeat myself again, selling something at half price is different than selling something at regular price even if this selling price is the same.


  It doesn't matter, as it still shows there is a demand at the lower price, a price cut is a promotion as well

You really dont understand consumer and promotion mechanics. A regular sale price cut is not a promotion, because the new price become the normal selling price, so is not a promotion. If its a temporary price cut then it is a promotion. Also, like I said before, you cannot base yourself on a promotional price to extrapolate if the item would sale as well at this regular price. Any items in the world will have good sale when its half price because your getting more than what your spending which is not the case when it is the regular price, even if you pay the same amount.

The persons that was able to purchase the 360 during that promotion paid 99$ and receive a real market value of 199$. Its a big difference from buying at 99$ and receiving a real market value of 99$. What it shows is that, theres always demand for a promotional price. It doesnt shows that there would be more than actual xbox demand if it would become 99$ always. Sure there would probably be a bit more demand, but your being dellusional and show that you have no connaisance on marketing if you think it would reflect the promotion sales.

You said that, Wii is not in the same war than PS3 or 360 because it has a different library. When I said a few post earlier that there was a lot more factors then only price, you reply that it wasnt the case. But when you affirm that it is different for the Wii you take into consideration a factor other than price (game library). You could find a lot of other factors to distinguish PS3 and 360 also.