| nightsurge said: ^I don't think Sony has any choice but to be $100 more expensive. The technology in the PS3 is simply a lot more expensive, surely $100 worth. The 360 and PS3 should never be the same price to begin with, but have been for a year. At the same price it is no wonder the PS3 is selling so much better as it does justify a lot more value. The only way the PS3 has managed to stay remotely close in price in the past was from taking a huge loss on hardware. Now, finally, after many revisions to hardware they are breaking even and profiting in some cases. They said themselves they won't cut for another year to focus on profitability and I think they will indeed follow this. Next fall 2011 will be their turn to try and come up with something to counter MS's events of this coming fall. The 360 should naturally be about $50-100 cheaper than the PS3 no matter what. The redesign to the 360 will only act to strengthen and prolong this constant price difference. |
You aren't honestly taking a Sony representative's word on not having a price cut this year seriously, are you?
http://www.betanews.com/article/Sony-CEO-Stringer-No-PS3-price-cut/1247075944
And even if the representative did know that there were no plans for a price cut, plans can quickly change. I'm fairly certain that Sony wasn't planning on dropping the price of the PS3 to $400 less than a year after it was released at $600.
