mutantsushi on 31 January 2014
| gergroy said: you know what is funny about this thread and this gen in general? The complete reversal of last gen. Last gen, you had sony fans talking about future price cuts that would push the ps3 into first place or at least past the 360 and then you had MS fans downplaying the effect of price cuts.... and now everything is backwards  |
Last gen Sony price-cuts were heavily influenced by Blu-Ray drive prices dropping, to the point those now cost ~$25.
That was a clearly forseeable process, once Blu-Ray 'won' the format war especially.
MS doesn't have any process like that helping it to disproportionatly lower it's price.
As long as they keep bundling Kinect, they will be proportionately LESS able to drop price,
as camera HW isn't subject to process improvements like RAM, CPU are.
If MS does drop Kinect bundling, then they could plausibly drop the price to meet/beat Sony's price.
Although note that Sony just bought a memory producer which they will likely be using for GDDR, so the $ differential there is muted.
