Xenostar said:
Seece said:
Xenostar said:
360 is already sooo cheap, i cant imagine a price cut having more than a modest boost, and to be fair i cant really see room for a price cut, maybe a price shift if they discontinue the 4gb and make the 250 the entry level model.
I think MS will be targeting great value bundles this Xmas, rather than cutting price on the base model |
I don't get these narrow minded responses, gees people open your mind and think.
Especially when christmas comes around the Kinect will be viewed as a console in itself to casuals, they won't have a kinect, or a 360, so that's the what they're going to ask for when they cluelessly go into Gamestop 'can I have a 360 Kinect please?'
The cheapest kinect bundle is $299? in which case, yes, a kinect bundle marketed at mass market price WILL do well.
They also have plenty of room for a cut, Kinect is rumoured to only cost $46 to manufacture (that's obviously not including retailer cut, shipping ect) but they obviously make a hefty profit on it, whilst the 360 has been slimmed down in recent years, that offsets the added wifi ect. They havn't cut since 2008, if you're telling me Sony whose gaming division which is barely profitable in recent years can cut $150 in the last 2 years, but Microsoft who have been profitable since 2008 can't drop $50 in 3 years? do me a favour.
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I was actually just refering to the console, as kinect is not one, even to the casuals there not idiots you know, but as i said i expect some great bundle deals, including those where kinect is in the bundle.
To casuals Kinect/360 is the console they're looking for when they go into stores.
I also would expect price cuts on kinect, just not on the standalone console, but way to overreact. :)
Also to your last bit this is the EMEAA thread not the US one, in the UK its easy to pick up a 250gb 360 for £149, seen offers at this price all through the summer, and i just cant see them getting the price lower than that without sku shifting and discontinuing the 4GB and making 250 the new entry model, although if shops started selling the 4gb at £99 they would not be able to keep them on the shelves.
Like I said, come christmas it'll be the Kinect bundle that will be selling the most, and that has room for movement. Even if you're talking standalone consoles, Nintendo have got theirs down to £89 now? those Gamecube portless wii's, and £129 with a game.
You seem to think Nintendo and Sony are capable of price cuts (both having cut twice since MS last cut, but MS can't, despite making more profit last year in their gaming division than both Nintendo and Sony. What exactly is your reasoning?
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