| Mummelmann said: Not exactly a stellar time to launch a remake of a console at a higher price. I don't understand why they didn't wait until fall/winter. Yes, they need momentum but the product itself could have less of an impact overall when launched at a slow time of year. By all means, releasing this console is a terrific idea but the time in which they put it on the shelves is less than stellar imo. It will surely bump the numbers considerably (50% increase for the summer months, probably near double numbers for the first couple of weeks). The real test is to see the sustained hardware bump, we all saw how much the PS3 Slim fell after a few months, even after having launched at the perfect time (fall) and with the price actually going down instead of up. Why didn't they wait and launch this alongside Natal instead? Would have made a lot more sense to me. |
It's not a higher price. It's the same price as the current system model but you get way more.
Also, I'm sure when Kinect releases that is when they will announce the price cut to the systems to boost the sales again at that time. For now MS will enjoy raking in a ton of profits from the cheaper to produce 360.
