thismeintiel said:
No price cut? LOL! What's $400 to $300, then? It's a price cut for their top of the line model. So the Elite got a price cut, but the Arcade didn't. But, it's still a pricecut. And yes, the 80 GB did count as a price cut for that model. However, it doesn't have as much impact, as the price for the low-end and top-end models stayed the same. With the Slim launch, both prices were lowered. Both price cuts, for the PS3 and 360 Elite, during the Slim launch make the most impact, as it lowered either the low-end or top-end price, or both. Either way you cut it, it was a price cut. I mean by your logic, when the Elite ever becomes the only model at $199.99, it's still not a pricecut, cause it just replaced the Arcade. So, in other words, for the rest of the gen 360 will never have a price cut, only the PS3 will. That's just a ridiculous, as well as biased, way of thinking. And all those extras you listed for the PS3 is the exact reason it's outselling the 360 on a weekly basis, usually ~50K. That's why what kowhoho is true. With a major bump for the MS, it would only just catch the PS3 with weekly sales, or just barely pass it. If PS3 also does a pricecut this year (most likely only ~ $25), then they will again outperform the 360. You seem to not remember when the 360 dropped its price in '08, PS3 was still $400. But now, it's in the sweet spot of $300, so sales for it aren't just going to go away because the 360 Elite is now $250. |
No, it was not a price cut. It was SKU changes. In 2008, the Premium was replaced with the Pro and went from 20GB to 60GB. This year the Pro was replaced by the Elite and went from 60GB to 120GB. It was just an SKU change. Would you rather they had gotten rid of the Elite and just upgraded the Pro's hard drive at the same price point? Because that's all they did, which would have happened anyway as 60GB HDD's become less afordable/logical to include over a 120gb. Only MS was smarter than that and decided to replace the Pro with the Elite and give an illusion of more value since the Elite was always known as the top of the line 360 model. So really they got quite the advantage of doing the SKU change this way, even if fanboys now have more of a flawed argument this way. The 80gb replacing the 40gb was not a price cut either. Only fanboys called it that.
Also, it will only be beating it by ~50k per week once we get further away from holiday figures inflating the numbers. And guess what, this exact same scenario, numbers and all, happened last year with the 360 being ahead by that amount weekly. Go figure... And before that, the PS3 in 2008 was ahead by ~50k per week on average and yet the 360 came out on top after their September price cuts.
Also, what's all this mumbo jumbo about $300 being a sweet spot? I thought $200 was supposedly the sweet spot? Also, what you fail to realize is that while a 360 Elite Slim with Natal will likely be $250, the PS3 with Move will be $400 again if they see no price cut, and $350 if they try to cut at least a little from the PS3 + Move bundles. So yes, a $250 full package will outsell a $400 or $350 PS3 by quite a hefty amount. Especially if people are considering multiplayer motion controls. That's another couple hundred for PS3 costs and nothing for 360.
