$299-$399 ps3 price point a crucial factor

[HappySqurriel]

Dno said:

HappySqurriel said:

I can't help but notice that the exact same people who believed that the 80GB PS3 was going to outsell both the Wii and XBox 360, and believed that the $400 PS3 was going to outsell the Wii and XBox 360, now believe that a $300 PS3 would outsell both the Wii and XBox 360 ...

Any price reduction in the near future is only going to look desperate, and could potentially hurt sales ...

um... no...

which price drop have you EVER seen that actually "hurt" sales????.......

Hurt was probably the wrong term ...

In the short run you will always see a spike in sales from a price cut, but in the longer term there can be no noticeable improvement if people doubt the popularity of the system; if Sony dropped the price again, every news story about it would talk about how rapid and unprecidented these price reductions were, how NPD data shows the PS3 being dominated by both the XBox 360 and Wii, and how desperate Sony must be to save the Playstation brand (these types of comments do not improve people's impression on how popular the system is).

As I said before, the only way Sony could pull this off is if it is in response to Microsoft cutting the price of the XBox 360 ...