| mrstickball said: Kruze, the thing is, as others have stated: you won't sell alot of software for those titles if your not moving systems too. MS could either sell the 360 @ $400, make $150 a system, and sell far fewer games, or sell the 360 @ $300, make $50 a console, but move 5 times the games, recouping a bit of their costs. Don't think they could move 5x the software? |
Do you really think if they only drop the price a month after Halo, they'll sell less copies of Halo and consoles in the end? I honestly don't.
Halo may not have such an impressive launch that way, but if you're going to sell out your first batch of copies anyway, what's the problem? People who are willing to pay $400 to get it yesterday, will get milked out. They'd go out and buy it on ebay for even more if they needed to. They may get pissed once the price drop is announced just weeks later, but honestly?... though luck! Others will wait, but they'll get it anyway a couple of weeks later when it's like $300 or something. In the end, it's the same, except you suckered a bunch of people into paying $100 extra, and somewhat helped retailers clean the stocks they purchased from you at the higher price (just when you want them happy enough to devote shelf space in Christmas for you).
If they wanna impress, they'll price drop for GTA - where they'll be fighting the overpriced PS3 head to head - not necessarily for Halo.
