Xbox One Is Pricey Because Microsoft Doesn't Put Consumers First Like Sony Does

[J_Allard]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

TheSting said:
What was being said last generation lol?

The PS3 has had more price cuts in the gen than Microsft who only really cut the price of the full model Xbox 360 once. Sony has cut the PS3 by $300 in price over since 2006. Microsoft since 2005 has only majorly dropped it once, and if you bought the core model you paid even more than the person who bought the full model. The PS3 was made to be the all in one box but as much as Sony wanted to have a cheaper price they couldn't they were already financially bleeding because of Kutaragis mistakes, which is why he had to step down. At $600  it was the cheapest Blu Ray player on the market.

Well none of that is really accurate. They dropped the 20GB model 2 times, they dropped the 60GB model 2 times, and they dropped the Elite 4 times.

The amount Sony dropped the price in total is irrelevant when you consider they launched hundreds of dollars more expensive. The fact of the matter is you have 2 consoles still selling well and selling similar amounts so it makes sense that they are priced similar amounts. MS won't be cutting the 360 price while they profit off of it and it still sells well. Just like Sony won't drop the PS3 while they can still make as much money as possible from it.

Both companies introduced a new strategy for pricing on consoles that I think will continue from now on. Every time there was a price drop there was a new hardware bundle that was slightly more expensive. So while technically you got the better hardware for less money if you waited, a lot of this gen it hasn't seemed like either console really got a good old fashioned price cut.