| GribbleGrunger said: Announcing this is basically Sony saying to MS: 'We're ready to match any price cuts.' |
Exactly... last gen MS was in a great position to do this everytime Sony had a positive thing (i.e a slim and cut the cost)... MS just went, hold on their buddy, we have a price cut.. and bam, just as sony was going to gain momemtum it was gone again. Now the shoe is on the other foot, if MS start to gain ground, Sony can now think, lets cut the price (not that i expect them to this year though).
One big difference this time is the success of PS+... by actually following MS into this arena, they have a good stream of revenue coming in from that, and any two console owners, well they are potentially stealing money from MS where customers decide to only get PS+ instead of gold. The more customers Sony gets the more PS+ subs they get, etc etc.
So Sony can either cut the price of the console and make it back in PS+ subs, but if they are selling 3:1 over the XBO already this year WW, then why bother, they will be doing fine. Would expect some amazing deals on Blackfriday though.
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