greenmedic88 said:
It's irrelevant because they won't. All personal opinions and favorites aside, I'm sure you know that if one platform gets a $100 price drop, the other will follow suit. There will be no "if the PS3 drops to $199, then Xbox drops to $149." MS already has their lower priced SKU in the 4GB, so it's a non-issue. Neither company wants a price war at this stage considering undershooting competitor price would result in lower margins rather than higher marketshare. At best, expect to see a $50 price cut on Kinect and Kinect bundles in 2011, and only if Kinect adoption rates drastically lose their momentum (which I am not banking on currently). |
If Sony makes a $50 or $100 price cut, MS will follow. Realistically MS will make the $50 price cut first, and have an additional $25-$50 off Kinect bundles, and Sony will follow. So $250 for a 360 Elite, or a PS3, $325 for a 360 Elite Kinect Bundle, or a PS3 Move bundle. That seems about fair, but MS will also have a $150 Arcade model, and a $225 Arcade Kinect Model.
I think this whole argument of a PS3 price cut to $199 is flawed. The biggest boost in sales seen were when both consoles dropped to $300, and Sony's was only so prominent because they released a Slim PS3 along with their price cut, right before the holiday season. If both consoles drop in price, it will only likely be $50 and will affect both consoles equally.
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