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nightsurge on 07 December 2009
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Attoyou said:
nightsurge said:
Attoyou said:
Lol 360 just cant Sell As well At the Same price, MS is just lucky PS3 has been so expensive these last few year

Sony is just lucky MS doesn't cut the price of the 360 to where it actually should be.  The PS3 costs twice as much as the 360 to produce.. so if they are selling for $300 and losing about $30-50 per console, the 360 could easily be sold for $160-175 (the Elite model) and break even or make a small loss per console sold.

Yes I am speculating, but the 360 has always been about 50% cheaper to produce and that percentage won't really change until after the chipsets in the 360 are updated to 45nm/45nm or Valhalla combined.  After that last round of cost reduction the PS3 may come within 33% of production costs towards the last year or 2 of the generation.

So the way I see it, Valhalla will be ready by end of 2009, early 2010, Natal will be out in Fall 2010, and MS will be ready to bundle Natal, cut prices and still break even or lose very little on hardware.  Imagine a $200-250 Elite with Natal bundle end of 2010 and a $99-129 Standard Arcade.  That's my wild prediction for tonight :)  Anyone wanna sig quote me?!

Yep , Like i Said , 360 Just Cant Sell As Well At the Same Price as the PS3 , Even With The $100 less Arcade , And MS Could and Should Cut the price and stay more Competitive .

You missed the point...  the 360 can't sell at the same price because it SHOULDN'T BE the same price.  Right now every Elite sold is bringing in a high profit margin while the PS3 is still losing money for every console sold.  The 360 by design is much cheaper than a PS3 to produce (no blu-ray drive, no bluetooth, no wireless starts to add some big savings since these are not always essentials or cheaper alternatives exist).  Whenever the PS3 and 360 are the same price, the PS3 should always outsell the 360 because it does represent leaps and bounds more value for the same price.

As I said, the only reason MS didn't cut the price and steal the thunder right from Sony's wings is because they are preparing a draw dropping, knock out punch of a year next year with heavy advertising of all their blockbuster games, reduced production costs from Valhalla or die shrinks and MAYBE a redesign of some sort, and of course Natal which as stated many times by many MS reps will be treated as a new console launch.  Things will be very big for MS next Fall.