| theprof00 said: Price cuts are not designed to increase sales but to combat slowing sales. Overstocked is a likely scenario given the timing of announcement. They're not pulling it out of their asses either. It is a brilliant strategy to also make it look like their live subscriptions are increasing. Remember this is only a limited time coupon. http://content.microsoftstore.com/store/xblive2yr-offer/ Use your mafia head. Why would MS offer this deal only for a limited time, only as a coupon, and only at MS stores. Apparently no other retailer ordered too much stock (or they would've dropped price), and no tracking company knows where the other shipments are. MS made it a goal to be #1 last year, shipped. Do you think, possibly, in any way, they might have over-ordered their own product in order to beat out the competition in shipments, and now have too much stock and are subsequently "dropping" the price? Which stores were offering these 199$ ps3s? I was only aware of gamestop. There was some 199$ during Christmas, but that's to be expected. I'm talkign about recently. |
Not sure is serious...
Without crazy conspiracy theories and heavily biased banter there's really only the one conclusion. PS3 is overtracked here.
I'm not saying that their might not be more stock of the 360 lying around (there is no PROOF of that, but you appear to want to believe it is a large number), and I'm not saying that some retailers might not be experiencing stocking issues with the PS3 (again, no PROOF of that, just your speculation) but without those two unproven things being true and both being a very large number, the PS3 is overtracked.
Honestly, you must just be trying to push peoples buttons here - you dont honestly believe these things...do you??
