starcraft said:
Jandre002 said:
Yes I do, if Microsoft does it. By normal logic 2 price cuts wont happen within a year of each other. But you have to remember this is a totally different SKU. Price didn't come down naturally, they were forced down. Its not an analysis of the current situation your looking at, but history. This generation is clearly unique since pricing is driving sales more than ever before, and never have we had such huge modifications to an initial SKU. But I completely believe Sony will cut the price if MSFT does. They have to. They have been preparing for this price cut since last year. You dont really think that MSFT dropping price will catch Sony off guard do you? Its why the PS3 has cut production costs faster than any console in history. It knows it will come, and is ready for it. So $299 vs $349 would be my guess, with DLC on one side and BR, MGS4, and brand name on the other. Promised there WILL be some people who simply dont know that GTA4 is on the 360. |
Sony needs to start proving they can make the PS3 profitable to investors. For MS, games are meant to be a loss-leader, but for Sony, they are meant to be a cash-cow. Sony has been steadily cutting features out of the PS3, but Microsoft has been steadily cutting costs as well. Face it, we know NOTHING of Microsoft's and Nintendo's cost-cutting over the past year.
If Sony cut the PS3 to $299, it would NEVER be profitable (over it's lifetime). This simply isn't an option for Sony in the way it is an option for MS. Furthermore, MS's advertising of GTAIV is going to be EPIC. |
Hopefully more successful than their EPIC ads for Lost Odyssey.
