ils411 said:
thx1139 said:
ils411 said:
thx1139 said:
sales2099 said:
With Sony releasing the data that PS3 is trailing behind the 360 by 2 million, Microsoft might be compelled to act now and drop the price. Not only to beat PS3 this year, but to hold their lead in general.
I hope they take whatever profit they can from MW3 and the 360 limited edition and drop the price a week or two after for all 360 skus |
Doubtful, most retailers already have November sales advertisements in place including Black Friday advertisements. MS dropping price would cause a pretty big disruption to retailer plans. What you will see is even more special offers in December. Just this week. Target, Best Buy, Walmart, Kmart, and Amazon all have gift card deals on Xbox 360s. I expect that every week between now and end of the year you will be able to get a deal on a 360.
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Thats just not true. For retailers, its never too late to slash down prices if it means more sales. Heck when I use to work at retail, we implemented new price cuts and price offs 1st week of December. Needless to say, we just made make shift sinages to convey the new discounted prices.
Price offs and discounts = more potential sales.
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So MS works with retailer(s) for a big black Friday promotion and the retailer produces signage and advertisements including those big deals and last minute MS just drops the price. That doesnt cause a disruption? All of a sudden there deal hoping to bring customers in and purchase other things is negated with an across the board price cut. It is to late for November price cut.
Also by the way Toys R Us Friday/Saturday sale advertisement for this week just popped up and 360s with Kinect include gift card so add TRU to the list of deals this week.
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Sure, why not? odder things have happened. As for advertising posters, signages and such, just print out the new prices on plain white paper, cut it and slap it ontop of the old prices indicated on the posters and other signages. easy as pie.
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Nah that's very unlikely. As he says deals, etc. will already be agreed. Changing stuff like this costs a lot of money - the only way it would work would be if MS agreed to foot the bill for the additional discount (as the retailers would say they're not losing any more margin) as well as any reprinting of materials. Slapping cheap price changes over expensive materials is only done in emergencies normally.
MS may have provisional deals in place waiting to be executed but getting stuff like this in place is complex, and most of the deals, etc. should already be set in place by now.
I suspect MS will have vendor funded a whole slew of bundles and similar deals that'll pop up on queue across the holidays.
But I doubt anything new will be agreed or put in place. Remember it's MS's problem if they've slightly misjudged their tactics for deals not the retailers.
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