| Madword said: 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. |
Yeah, Sony will only drop the price IF any MS price cuts starts having an effect. Their first approach will be to drive sales with great games bundles and PS+/PSNow (possibly). If any meaningful spike in sales for the XB1 lead to a sustained bigger average that threatens Sony's dominance, THEN Sony will drop the price.
Sony are in prime position to put the squeeze on Microsofts bottom line and so force Microsoft to anger investers. They haven't been in a better position since PS2.
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