| thismeintiel said: And do you seriously think that MS is going to sell the Elite at that big of a loss? I know the 360 is selling at a profit, now, but nowhere near over $100 profit. The max they can afford to drop the 360 would be around $50. Plus, it would look bad to the general public if their "top of the line" model was already the same price as a Wii, which is widely known to have inferior hardware (not a jab, just a fact). It would just make it seem "cheap." And not in a good way. |
It's also widely known that the Wii hardware is cheap to produce and that they make a killing off of it.
The 360 Elite right now could easily be making $50-75 profit. Add in the extra savings that the Slim would bring and it is easy to see them breaking even on a $200 Elite or taking only a very minor loss.
As for the rest, it's not that I see only one outcome, its that I see my outcome as more than likely given all the past trends and what not. I admit nothing is guaranteed, but with rumors after rumors of the Slim stacking up and more evidence adding to that, it just seems much more likely that this will be a repeat of 2008. I see no reason to believe that there will somehow only be at most a tie between PS3 and 360 if the 360 were to get a price cut and all that. It seems much more logical based on the past trends that the 360 would outsell the PS3 this year and then at the end of 2011 the PS3 will have it's chance again.
