dreamcast210 said:
And for the people saying $150 is high, this is standard marketing procedure. Offering the standalones at the same total cost as the bundle, doesn't give people incentive to purchase the bundle. Even the 360 bundles with Kinect reflected this same pricing strategy. You can look at any field of entertainment (or merchandise in general) and see the same thing applied. Think of movies. Each movie in a trilogy might cost $14.99 each (total of $44.97) but the bundled trilogy might cost $29.99. |
So, Microsoft's strategy all along was to overprice their console by bundling an unwanted peripheral, so that when the sales come crashing down, they can unbundle the peripheral, sell the console for $100 less, and then return the peripheral at a 50% higher price, just so they can stimulate the sales of the original $499 bundle nobody cared about in the first place...
