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Seece said:

I was looking at Sony's price cuts for the PS2 (was quite surprised!) and wondered what the VGChartz community could gauge from them when it comes to how Microsoft is going to price cut the X360, given its model is going to follow closer to PS2 than Xbox or Gamecube.

PS2
Oct 2000 -$299.99
May 2002 - $199.99
May 2003 - $179.99
May 2004 - $149.99
April 2006 - $129.99
April 2009 - $99.99

X360 (Baseline price)
Nov 2005 - $299.99
August 2008 - $279.99
August 2009 - $199.99

Microsoft obviously likes its price cuts few and far between, if they followed the same model/timeframe as Sony with the PS2, they'd be at $99.99 by now, but it's a safe bet they're going to cut this year. I thought a $129 cut would be on the cards to take them to 2013 720 launch, then a cut to $99 to last till 2015. But given it took Sony 4 cuts to get to $99, I'm not sure MS will do it in two.  $149 > $129 > $99 doesn't seem like a good idea to me though ...

Bolded: It took the PS2 8 1/2 years to cut to $99, so if MS followed the same pattern they'd be at $129.99.

Personally, I think they'll be cutting to $149.99, and perhaps they'll cut Kinect's price to $99. Should be enough to keep their momentum until 2013, when they could cut 99.99 and 49.99 before releasing their next console.



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