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theprof00 on 10 May 2012
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Mendicate Bias said:
theprof00 said:
Mendicate Bias said:

Every major analyst and game website has discussed the reasoning behind the new pricing model. It is a test to see if low income families that don't have a lump sum of cash available will be drawn into a cheaper console with a monthly fee. People are predicting it will be used in the next generation of consoles to draw people into the userbase much quicker than they would typically opt in due to price.

Even IGN had an article about this. You have to be blatantly trying to stir up shit to claim like no one knows why they would suddenly come out with this pricing model. It is simply to test the waters for next gen. Stop with the crazy theories, they look desperate.

You act like theories act independantly from one another.

Tell me this Mendicate.

You go to test the waters of a new pricing model. Expecting it to increase sales, should you order more consoles in expectation of higher demand?

You're obviously a smart fellow, so you don't really need to answer this.

That depends on how much of an impact you believe it will have on sales. Even if you believe it will have a sizeable increase (which I don't think it will) that does not mean the increased shipments came in almost half a year ago.

Now you're implying that the shipment for this took place before christmas, when it is very possible that they had two overshipments.

One of the debates here was that if MS truly overshipped, then this last quarter should be sub 1m. You with me so far? So, imagine that this last quarter SHOULD have been sub 1m, but then they ordered more in preparation for this.

I know you're trying to dispute my point with logic. And I commend you for doing so. But my theory isn't illogical. It's just a question of whether it happened or not. There aren't any holes in it. Granted, the theory is being refined more and more with every question, but the overall statement of MS shipped themselves more 360s, indicated by their new pricing model, is still very much logical and possible. We're only debating the details now.

I just don't want to confuse you into thinking I'm changing my theory. It's still the same theory, but we're just talking about logistics, which is all fair and well, because we can't really say whether it happened or not, so it's better to logically question the capability of such an event occuring.