I Believe Xbox One Needs A Mininum $150 Pricecut To Be Competitive Again (I Eat That Crow)

[Landguy]

ethomaz said:

Landguy said:

I agree with this.  Dollar value match to PS4 is all it really needs.  The $50 price drop and a game would make it cost the same as PS4.  The demand that the PS4 sees today are mostly early adopeters which put a lot more value into the specs.  The people buying after the first 6 months are the casuals.  They care a lot less about the minor changes in resolution, if the gameplay is good.

That's why I expect the US to see a price drop at the end of April or sometime in May.  They will pack in the Kinect Sports Rivals and claim a parity in cost.

As far as dropping Kinect in 2014, NO WAY.  If all of the pack ins and advertising promos with retailers fail this year, they will have to drop Kinect in April or May of 2015.

I'm listening the early addopter talk since last year or demand will drop after that... in the reallity the causals already are buying PS4.

You will have to listen to it a lot longer.  Early adopters are just that.  They adopt a product EARLY in its lifecycle.  If this was a cell phone that will be replaced within 6-12 months, I would agree with you.  Due to the extremely long life cycle last gen, there are a lot more people who now have High def TV's and want to adopt the next gen right away.  Like I said"mostly" early adopters, not all. Like the Wii before, the PS4 has already gained a certain amount of the "cool" to have it thing going for it.  With the Chronic out of stock issue, it only adds to the fervor.  Had Sony had the instock that M$ had here in the states at the holidays, there would not have been as much of this constantly building demand.  Of course, they would have clearly outsold M$ if they had either way.

Sony clearly has the more sought after system at this point, and that won't change for most of the world either way.  Here in the US, the demand for the PS4 will stabalize when the instock issue is resolved.  Also, when M$ brings a little parity in price, the bleeding will slow or even stop.  As far as the rest of the world, M$ didn't even try to compete with the pricepoint they launched at.