The Xbox One price cut is slightly insulting, desperate & utterly brilliant

[thx1139]

kupomogli said:

thx1139 said:

I expected this all along. Didnt the PS3 experience provide evidence that consumers really dont get pissed about this sort of thing. The PS3 dropped $100 per year the 1st 3 years of its existence. Did you see some sort of huge backlash? Nope.

You did see big backlash, but it wasn't from the early adopters, it was from people who purchased the system after each price drop.  People who were upset that they couldn't get a hardware backwards compatible PS3 or later a software backwards comptiable model.  Those people were waiting for a price drop which screwed them out of getting something only the early adopters have access to.

Really never saw the press talk about it. Never saw the press claim it cost Sony sales.  A few complainers on gaming forums does not make a backlash.