I think most believe MS will drop the price around the launch of Natal. At most, I believe it will be a $50 cut to the Elite (Arcade will most likely stay the same). Sony will probably only have to drop the PS3 by ~ $25 to combat this. By that time, Sony will probably be able to still break even with a drop. But right now, since Sony is beating MS on a weekly level, they only have to react to what MS does. So, at least in terms of pricing, they are sitting and waiting.
@ Knoxcore
Media reaction really means nothing. Especially when its happens over a yr before your product launches. Which is where MS screwed themselves. They will never be able to build up as much hype as what followed E3 last year. Plus, add in the fact that around that time, Natal still had the micro-processor in it and even back then there was lag and problems tracking. Since the deletion of the micro-processor, we have yet to see a vid or demo of it running. So this time, ads won't save MS, only the fact of whether they can deliver a functioning product or not. And if this qoute reported by IGN, from a dev working on both techs is true I have little fatih.
"Natal, though -- the motion offering from Microsoft -- not so much. The same studio rep calls Natal a big, buggy mess. "It's sh*t," he adds, saying that it just doesn't work as promised. That it's slow and that the camera is imprecise, which he notes, is causing some major development woes." http://wii.ign.com/articles/107/1076978p1.html
There's also the fact that Move is launching a month in advance of Natal, so that might steal some of its steam.
