IS the Europe price cut bigger than first thought? Starts today?

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NJ5 said:

Hopefully for Microsoft, this price cut will result in at least these three things (in increasing order of importance):

1- A nice peak in sales (say 50-70%) for a few weeks
2- Improving the regular sales level to 20-40% more than it is at now.
3- Stealing more sales from PS3's GTAIV launch than it would have without the price cut.

The first two are quantifiable, the last one may be harder to see but is IMO the most important of them all for the console war.

 

Thats absolutely right.  The people that decide to abandon Sony and go to Microsoft for GTAIV are also deciding NOT to NEED the old PS2 exclusives (FF, MGS, GT) and therefore they will try MS exclusives.  It also helps set MS up for their classic, third time lucky move!  If you play no Sony exclusives for 5 years but do play MS ones, which console are you going to lean too next gen?  

The difference is, Sony won't have the money (MS) or innovation (Nin) to buy back their 'loyal' fans......