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 I would agree but I think they are using their head for once. Let GTAIV sell a ton of consoles then cut the price as they would have gained enough cash to afford a price cut in their entertainment division. With the Yahoo deal in the air, they can't afford to cut prices very easily. I agree on the principle... they care about making profit right now... their are still largely second and can earn money to cover the RRoD expanse and other stuff, and just make profit.... then a price cut around christmas again or gears 2 and a big one could be more efficient than a price cut before GTA.... now about yahoo I don't think so.... they are giving money to a company that be theirs after... the actual cost of the company for MS won't be what they pay, yahoo has a value on the market already... it's not like they invested that much to create a new company... 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!! Common sense says their SKUs make no sense. The arcade bundle is insanely stupid as it makes customers still have to buy an HDD like the Core SKU did. Why make it so that developers have to put that "Needs HDD" icon on games? Is it to piss customers and developers off at the same time? yeap without saying that bundled games like that, usually total price is really close to the 2 bought separately... i'm not sure the investment is worse it on a market already that advanced... will it move enough system to justify the cost (packaging, special design, marketing and advertising campaign) 3) European Prices - Hey "European Pricing Dude"!!! Buy a Calculator and look up CONVERSION RATES.. you crazy bastard... Ya their pricing sucks overall anyways, look at the launch price of the 120GB HDD, it still is a ripoff GB to $$ but still isnt as bad as it was originally. well usually in europe on the hardware/electronic device... the price tag in euro is the same in dollar... meaning that $60 in USA = 60€ in europe.... look at the lcd TVs dell computer, applestore... usually the figure of the MSRP out of special offers is the same just the currency symbol change.... that's old news... before it was more interesting for US people to buy in europe... now it's the opposite.... (i'm glad I come with my euros in USA right now lol).... now GB it's another story they play their own game can't help them lol :P /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. | 
