vivster said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
vivster said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
vivster said:
I never understood why a massive price drop for the X1 is so hard of a possibility? I mean MS has a lot more cash than Sony to sell the console for a loss. I wouldn't be surprised if it got cut a 100$ without dropping the kinect in the near future. Especially when Microsoft sees how far they are behind by the end of Spring. |
Microsoft doesn't like to be behind Sony. They came into the industry to throw Sony off their hinges, not to take risks in truly taking over the living room. They'll throw out the Kinect if worse comes to worse to get back into the fight with Sony. Look what they did in Europe once they heard about Sony's preorders. They gave everyone of the day one Xbox One owners free Fifa 14. If you haven't noticed how Microsoft has been reacting to everything Sony does since February 2013 you've been ignoring a couple things. What Sony does matters. If it wasn't for Sony most Xbox owners would have to accept that they had to play a DRM locked console.
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Are you sure you meant to reply to me? Because I agree with everything you said.
I'm just asking why everyone is saying that they need to drop kinect to drop the price. If cornered by Sony I think they are very well capable of dropping the price by $100 without sacrificing kinect for it.
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Microsoft lied about the Xbox not being able to work without the Kinect in the first place. Microsoft then admitted it wasn't true and said the Kinect is still essential so they still bundled it. This confused gaming reporters (seriously, you can look this up). Soon after everyone finds out the Kinect works but still wasn't essential enough to bundled. Microsoft didn't need to force that upon consumers. I think they are just trying to profit on the hardware and then they'll drop it. They don't trust consumers to willingly accept the second iteration od the Kinect so they are creating artificial demand. America is their home turf and if the Xbox One drops in price it will sell like hot cakes.
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Again everything you said is correct but if they drop the price without dropping kinect they will be in a much better position.
If they drop kinect this will have at least 2 adverse effects. First the kinect might not be a $100 dollar value but it has some value and it is one of the few things giving the X1 an edge against the PS4. If they drop kinect and the price to PS4 levels their console will be under a lot more scrutiny for having even less to stand out and 2 consoles for the same price are easier to compare. You don't need to do much research to see that the PS4 is the better value even with the same price.
Second they will once again confuse the customers. Even though it is out in the open that X1 works fine without kinect it would be mixed messages again after they advertised it so heavily with the kinect. A lot of the advertised functions of the X1 wouldn't work without kinect.
Then again the dropped price will probably make up for those two.
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If you're correct then they will surely lose to Sony by quite a bit. They wont drop the price on the console itself without losing the Kinect. They aren't willing to bleed out on overall value like Sony did with the PS3. Whichever profits first can be dropped once it profits and then the choice can be given to consumers. Microsoft is the smarter company when it comes to profiting.
