silentdj151 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
slowmo said:
Hynad said:
Why do you think that Sony won't be able to always price their console lower than Microsoft's?
If The XBO gets a price cut, the PS4 can get a price cut just the same.
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Perhaps because one company makes billions in profit every quarter where as the other is selling assets and cost cutting to try and scrape profitability. Microsoft will always have the ability to loss lead on hardware by a huge margin if they ever wanted to.
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MS will always have the ability to losslead, but compared to Sony losses to make their platforms succeed there is a clear distinction. The PS4 will make small profit in the beginning and it will grow over time. They will be able to cut price fairly soon. I could understand if this was the PS3 and you were saying this and they were bleeding as badly as they were but they've slowed that bleeding and returned the PS3 to profitability. At least give them that. Pachter has already stated that the PS4 will start off at a small profit, so they are already well ahead of the PS3 in that respect.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/business/global/10iht-sony10.html?_r=0
Read that then get back to me...sony has a big hole to dig themselves out of...regardless of how successful it is...once again there will be less then 5% market share gap between the PS4 and xbox one with the xbox being more profitable due to xbox live
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Thats not news to me. We all know Sony is hurting, but Kaz is going to turn Sony around like he did with the PS3. Again, even Michael Pachter has said the PS4 will launch at a small profit in the beginning and then it will grow.
