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Dragon_Lord on 27 July 2011
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sales2099 said:
Dragon_Lord said:
sales2099 said:
Well just look at how MS does busines this gen.

They save all their marketing $$$$$ for the holidays.

Gears of War 3 is going to be massive......way bigger then Uncharted 3, Resistance 3, or any PS3 exclusive this fall. Offcourse I mean sales wise.

Look at the preorders for multiplats like COD (biggest game of the year sales wise) and Battlefield 3.......all massively favouring the 360.

Its been 3.......3 years since an official price drop. One must happen this year if they wanna offset Japan with superior sales in NA and about even sales in Europe. Drop Kinect by $50, include their 2 game bundle liek they do every year.

Were in the eye of the storm people......and MS is very good this year at concealing their plans for the fall.

lol MS had a lot of games last year (for MS) as well as a massive boost from the intial "wow" of kinect, which has almost completely faded and ps3 had a bad year as far as games, people forget that even games released earlier in the year sell consoles during the holidays, last year Sony was about on par with MS for games (which is bad for Sony) and this year they have tons of games, and last year holidays despite MS being in the clearly better position Sony still managed to ship just as much (only because 360 had shortages and ps3 was a little overstocked) this year MS has less games, less of a kinect factor, and I'm pretty sure Sony will benefit more from a price drop, I just don't see how 360 can outsell ps3 this year even with MS advertising tons on big name games (which they did last year)

Well as for last year it all comes down to brand perception in nonUK Europe and Japan......360 games and wow factor of kinect aside. Unfortunate, but thats the one thing Sony has going for them: brand power generated by PS1 and PS2. 

You neglected my post....as its been 3 years since a 360 price drop. Not to mention 360 sales are up YOY without the price drop helping. 

Just saying, MS advertises way more, and they are more likely to aggressively lower the price. Last year they did great........without a price cut. 

I really don't think anyone thinks the only reason ps3 is ahead in japan and europe is the brand factor, you know that extended warrenty that didn't even cover all 360 failures in NA, most of the rest of the world didn't even get that, also 360 exclusives often don't get localized and xbl isn't even on par with psn in alot of the world (but they still have to pay), there are actually alot of places where you can get psn but you can't get xbl, MS is doing very little to appeal to people outside of NA and Sony has been doing alot for awhile 

It's down 62% yoy in the last couple weeks, the only reason it was up yoy before was the slim, and the reason that was such a big boost is because it's the first 360 that's actually reliable so people on the fence and people wanting to upgrade (from an older 360) both went out and got one, now that it crossed that part of the year it's going to be down yoy for the rest of the year unless it price cuts

An equal price cut will still benefit ps3 more, because of the 200 360 skew and the ps3s blu ray player and I really can't see either cutting the price without the other matching, and again MS advertised a ton last year and had more advantages over ps3 last year then this one, and they still only tied so I don't see how they can win this year with less advantages