NotStan said:
I doubt MS will flood the market with Kinects when 3DS comes out. Portables and consoles, besides whichever way it goes 3DS first shipment is likely to sell out in 2-3 weeks time, so they won't be affected much. What would be interesting is whether MS will flood the market with Reach bundles when KZ3 comes out lol. |
)? Say, trying to steal some thunder from a competitor's big launch, like it already did with Forza bundles started during GT5 launch, this time, instead, flooding stores with Kinect-360 4GB bundles at $200-220 (*) time limited offer during 3DS launch? Knowing MS, I wouldn't rule it off, not fair at all, but business is business, and against Sony it worked fine (although Sony will almost surely retaliate with heavy GT5 bundling during Forza 4 launch), so why not be more ambitious and aim at Nintendo next time?It would mean crediting KZ3 as peer with Halo, while defying 3DS would be a lot more bold and ambitious, and 3DS will attract a lot more people into shops, so it's a far bigger opportunity to take lucky shots, not to mention that 3DS is rumoured to be very expensive, so a crazy offer on a big bundle could really sway a lot of people that will come to shops to see the 3DS but will be undecided until the last moment and could be deterred by a price very high for a portable.
And there's also another reason: Kinect defied Balance Board, and in USA, where the latter wasn't bundled, it won. MS could have very good reasons to think that keeping on fighting against Sony for 2nd place won't take it very far, and struggling for it gives it a bad image return too, while starting fighting for 1st place won't bring a WW victory , by now, but it could give it some nice satisfactions, regional victories and more prestige.
