Possible XB 360 Price drop coming..

[snakenobi]

nightsurge said:

snakenobi said:

its common sense a price drop is coming from both SONY and MS

MS will drop $50 for 4gb and $100 for all the other 3 sku's

Sony will drop $100 on all 3 of their SKU's

and both won't any lose money on hardware

 

and nintendo's already made a pricecut

without this each of the side's won't be competitive this holiday season

I disagree. If Sony does a $100 drop, they will be losing another ~$50 per console sold again, I'm afraid.

That combined with the massive company losses lately, I don't think they will stomach any more than a $50 price cut this year.

I agree with the rest, though I am not sure where the 4GB 360 will end up, price wise. It may get phased out and replaced with the 250GB at $199 or it may go down to the $99-129 range.  Plus, lets not forget that hard drive sizes are likely to get shifted around a bit as well.

howwould sony be still be losing $50?

sony has been making profit on ps3 from Q1 2010(Jan-Mar) after that they die reduction of RSX which further significantly dropped costs

and with time the prices of all parts used in PS3 are going down plus sony had plans to further shrink the die of both CELL and RSX

and the recent FCC reports of new PS3 models incoming will have all these cost reductions

SONY still won't cut costs till holidays so they can do further reductions till then

 

and the losses SONY suffered lately will be covered by insurance claims,all big corporations insure their assets

and if you read a recent report,SONY had $8.5billion in reserves

 

AND if SONY can or not stomach,they will have to cut $100.A $50 would do nothing for them,it will be non-effective.

PS3  can't cost $250 when Wii2 with Wii2 coming out

 

abt 360,they will need a model at $149 or below.they can and will do that,though i don't think that there is a need for such a dramatic cut to $129 or $99 for them as they will do just fine with $149