PS3 SIGNIFICANTLY Outsold Xbox 360 on Black Friday!!!!!

[Porcupine_I]

donsterydo2 said:

Porcupine_I said:

donsterydo2 said:

And now I wonder, how long Sony will have to sell PS3 under the cost of production and what M$ will do to turn the tide for their adventage, is it possible that we will see next year an Arcade for 100$ and Elite for 200$ ? 2010 will be a funny year to watch

i don't think Microsoft will make a pricecut, even if they could.

 

i believe they want to keep the price the same until natal launches, and then do a stealth pricecut by offereing it bundeled for the same price.

 

otherwise if they do a pricecut now, they would probably have to raise the price again for natal, and king customer does not approve of price hikes.

 

that said, it might be possible sony has turned things around now, they might be able to do their own pricecut when natal releases.

 

But they are selling PS3 still under the cost of production and they stated that they will make PS3 profitable in fiscal year 2011. Another price cut in 2010 would mean no profits for PS3 industry.

i have actually never understood why this is such a big deal in this generation, consoles have always been sold under cost of production, its not the hardware that makes a profit its the software sales.  one year is a long time, and there is always room to reduce cost for established hardware. if the slim keeps selling well, i have no doubt sony will be in a position to consider reacting to the natal with a price-cut.

of course, they had a lot of investment in the slim this year, they ain't buildt for free, and the software sales accumulated with the sold slim models did not affect the last quarter much, but Numbers should look better from now on.

 i would rather like to know how much money natal development requires.