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CommonNinja on 20 April 2014
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thismeintiel said:
CommonNinja said:
thismeintiel said:

 

 

 

"PS4 has no chance to win America. Once Xbox One drops price to $399 combined with Titanfall and Halo N.America will be Xbox territory. 


Guess you can Quote me when I turn out to be wrong, but I actually agree with this one.....well, at least if they drop to $400 quick enough.

Xbox One has been selling verry well in NA considering it's 50-100$ more expensive.  If they drop the price to 400$ at E3, then I predict that Xbox One will take back NA. by christmas.

I know some people have been saying "well its already 400$ technically", but the problem is that a lot of coustomers still don't know about some of the deals going on at retailers, and even then, the PS4 still has a lower sticker price.

Lol, I'm not going to qoute you.  I'm good with this one thread, unless people start posting really nutty stuff. 

Personally, I think it's going to take a $350 price point to compete with the PS4.  March had a $450 price for the One, Kinect AND a game, plus the release of the incredibly hyped Titanfall, yet 60K more people chose the PS4.  While I agree that people don't think "Well, since I get Kinect with the One, that basically makes it $400-$450 for the One."  But, when you package a game for free at $450, they will think they are basically getting the One for $400.  Especially since it was cheaper to buy a One with Titanfall than it was to buy the PS4 with Infamous, and you got Kinect on top of that.

Without people getting taxbreaks, or another hyped game, April may end up more like January.  Which is when the PS4 outsold the One by 130K, or nearly 2x the amount the One sold.


I wouldn't count the One out just yet.  A lot of places were selling the Titanfall bundle at 500$ (like gamestop), and the ones that weren't couldn't advertise the cheaper price, you only found out once putting it in the online shopping cart.

I think once the price is officially dropped to 400$, people will start to bite.  A low sticker price sells better than a higher sticker price with extra goodies thrown in.

A consumer study done, in fact, showed that 9/10 consumers will always go for the product with the lowest sticker price regaurdless if the one with a higher price is better, or has more features.  

I think once they are the same price, coustomers will give the Xbox a chance, and the fact that it has a camera included might just sway some over as they will see it as getting more for thier moneys worth.  At 100$ more though, a lot of people aren't really going to care if it has the camera, not because they don't like it, but just because they don't want to pay 100$ more for it.  If MS throws it in there as a bonus for free (which is how some will view it if they are the same price), then people will be more likely to give the Xbox a chance.

 

Anyways, a pricedrop still won't do much for Europe (other than the UK).  Microsoft is going to need to win them over with a whole host of exclusives tailored specifically to them if they want that audience.