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WilliamWatts on 28 July 2010
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binary solo said:
WilliamWatts said:
binary solo said:

If there is a $249 120Gig clearance I predict predictions of meltdowns.

A $349 160Gig Move bundle is a very good competitor with the Arcade Kinect bundle at $299, and an excellent competitor with 360s Elite. If they do put out this bundle then Sony's firm commitment to Move would be pretty hard to doubt.

Is it? Move is more competing with the Wii. It's $349 with Playstation stuff vs $199 with Nintendo stuff. Kinect is completely different and therefore competes against the Wii in a different way. The only reason why they are being compared is because the Xbox 360 and PS3 have traditionally competed over the same markets. However this is not the case with Move and Kinect as they are entirely different design philosophies and share more in common with the Wii than each other in terms of how the interface is implemented.

Yes it is. 360 and PS3 are direct competitors in this game. But they are also both looking to attract some of the potential Wii market their way. A $349 bundle is a bit more attractive to the person who was thinking about Wii but could be convinced to go HD than a $399 bundle. But $349 is also there to get the person who was considering Arcade Kinect to have a 2nd thought. $399 bundle isn't going to give the Arcade Kinect buyer an moment of pause.

It's a veritable menage-a-trois now.

Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 are direct competitors but both Move and Kinect have been positioned in completely different areas of the market. Im sure there will be some convergence as Move becomes more mainstream and Kinect develops more of a core gamer library however in the context of holiday sales for this year theres no real competition between the two devices. I don't think given the library differences there will be many people cross shopping Kinct 360s directly against Move PS3s no matter what the price difference is. The person who wants Kinect at this point is different to the person who wants Move and the big question is which one suits best, not which one has the best price relative to the other.