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Intrinsic on 11 June 2014
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VanceIX said:
Intrinsic said:
VanceIX said:

Looking at the sales trends, even after E3, Sony winning this month is much more probable than Microsoft. Microsoft not advertising their price drop at E3 was a bad idea.

That was strategic PR, is kinda why there isn't also a big marketing push that somehow goes with these kinda price drops. Its a stealth major price drop it seems. I think they don't want people somehow going, "what? didn't ust come out last year and they are already dropping the price?"

So, they are handling less like a price drop and just more like the introduction of a new cheaper SKU. 

That's a pretty bad excuse for not announcing it. 1. Such a major price drop at E3 would give great publicity. Can you imgaine the applause they would have gotten for such an announcement? 

2. If they really cared so much about image, they wouldn't have removed the Kinect in the first place.

  1. Thats the thing, XB1@$399 is not a "price drop". Its a different SKU, one without kinect. Thus it would be called the kinect free version. Its like sony announcing a PS4, taking out wi-fi, the disc drive, dropping the price to $250 and calling it a "price drop". Its not. 
  2. They care about image, but they care about sales more. The PS4 was killing them at $500. Its bad when the one differentiator you have is something that no one sees value in and then the industry at large is saying your console is weaker and yet charging more. To improve their chances of selling more, they had to drop the price, to do that, they had to take out kinect. You don't came on stage exactly a year after you left the very stage championing a feature that you claimed your platform was built around only to announce that you had taken it out and you were dropping the price. That doesn't get you applause, they would probably laugh you off the stage.