It's never been a matter of if but when. Perhaps Nintendo saw how much 360 benefitted from doing something to give sales a shot in the arm mid-year last year. I always pegged all 3 to drop price late Q3/early Q4.
I wonder if it'll elicit a responce from Sony or MS.
Sony I doubt, I don't see Sony viewing increasing the price gap by another $50 between PS3 and Wii as significant, especially mid-year. So for Sony I think their price cut schedule will be independant of Wii. But there will be one this year for PS3.
MS I'm not certain. I guess it may depends a bit on how important the 4GB sku is to 360 sales, and whether a $50 gap between the Arcade and Wii is seen as something that needs to be immediatly countered. I believe most 360 sales are for the 250GB sku, so I don't think MS will respond on 360 pricing. Might be they respond immediately on Kinect pricing though. I think they've got some margin they could trim for Kinect and still be profitable per unit.
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