Is a price cut enough?

[thismeintiel]

DJEVOLVE said:

thismeintiel said:
Price cut is definitely not enough. What MS needs to do is get rid of Kinect. Then drop the price to $349. Then flood the market with good exclusives. Of course, MS may not do any of them. At least, not any time soon. They'll probably hold out til Titanfall, to see what that game does. Of course, by then the gap will probably be 500K+ in the US.

After Titanfall, they are either going to keep the Kinect and lower the price to $449, or get rid of the Kinect and drop the price to $399. Either way, it will still put it at the same price as the PS4, while being less powerful, which still isn't going to fly for most consumers. And they don't have enough studios power to constantly churn out good quality exclusives. About half, maybe more, of their studios are probably working on Kinect games and/or apps. The other studios aren't ready to launch games, yet, with their largest franchise not being read til 2015. Which is why MS has to resort to purchasing 3rd party exclusives, ones that will most likely make their way onto the PS4 in a year or so, whether as a port or sequel.

Of course, these changes are only mostly going to boost sales in NA. Every where is, like EU and Japan, its pretty much over.

Xbox One at 399 with kinect I think is better, this way they can compete on both levels. The casuals will buy in but not for this price. 399, maybe.

I think you're going to have to wait a year or so for that package, unless MS wants to start taking big losses with each sale.