| darkfire001 said: When do you guys expect the next round of Price Cuts to begin for the Xbox 360 and for how much? Personally I believe Microsoft has two options, they can "concede" the console war and take a profit this time around by NOT dropping the price until this summer June/July or late, in order to take the most profit possible out of GTA 4's launch and then dropping the price for the Holidays OR Microsoft can go after the PS3 & Wii by dropping the price right before GTA IV's launch in order to build a bigger install base for future software sales. I'm thinking Microsoft really needs that pricecut, but will likely delay until the Fall unless another Sony puts some pressure on. The pricecuts I see happening are more drastic then last time, but still not massive. I'm hoping/imagine the following. Elite...$450 -> $399 (Bundled Game) Premium...$349 -> $299 Core...$279 -> $249
With the Premium bundled for the holidays and then down to $199 for the following holiday season with the Core phased out. |
What makes you think that not dropping the price = conceding to Sony? The games lineup for 2008 AND most probably 2009 is pretty good. They don't have to do anything more this year, so long as they keep at a good relative pace with the PS3. If they do drop the price, I would probably expect them to do it later this year before they release their Jasper 65nm GPU revision.
Tease.
