| gebx said: Sometimes I think MS has their heads so far up their ass's that they wouldn't know if they should crap out of their ass's or their mouths... 1) Price cuts - Where is the NA Price Cut? its April, a couple weeks before GTA IV and no news or rumours of price cuts on the horizon.. and since MS sucks at keeping secrets this basically means that there is no price cuts on the horizon. So lets compare Sony's price cuts vs. MS's Price cuts - $200 vs. $50... Woah MS! That's really impressive for a system thats been out a year longer!! <--sarcasm 2) Bundles (GTA IV) - Let's spend $50 million dollars on extra content, but lets not bundle the game with the console because that would be too intelligent... WTF MS?? How dumb are you people.. But then what else could you expect from the same people who sold a Halo 3 Sku WITHOUT THE FREAKING GAME!! 3) European Prices - Hey "European Pricing Dude"!!! Buy a Calculator and look up CONVERSION RATES.. you crazy bastard... /rant Ah I feel better.. But seriously, what the hell is wrong with MS, I'm really starting to believe that they're trying to lose this console race. Why so much time in between price cuts? All their doing is giving more time to Sony to lower their production cost and letting them keep up with any MS price cuts. |
1 and 3 are basically the same. This is the issue I have been talking about for a year now. Sony is one of the best Consumer Electronics companies out there. They regularly compete with the links of Samsung, Toshiba, and other top quality consumer electronics companies. MS is a baby when it comes to this kind of market, and they are competing with one of the best companies at it in the world.
MS will fail when competing against Sony (or any other consumer electronics company) when it comes to making a piece of consumer electronics. So, where Sony designed a unit that easily become less expensive over time, MS did not factor this into their design (or if they tried, they failed at it miserably).
MS does not reduce the cost of the 360 because it does not cost that much less to make today than it did when they release it.
As for point 2, MS just dropped the ball. Again, they are the new kinds on the block here, and some lessons are learned at a high cost.
