Intrinsic said:
As for XB1, I have no doubt in my mind that we will see an official XB1 price drop to $300 this year. What remains to be seen is just how aggressive MS will get. They could very well offer bf deals with either halo or tomb raider bundled in at that price point. As for the PS4, its anyone's guess if they would drop the price this year. But when they do I expect it to be a drop to $300. I am beginning to suspect that what we will get this year are just bundles at $400 though like we did last year. So I expect we will see an uncharted bundle at $400 this holiday season. They are already doing this with the current TLoU bundle. But if Sony really wants to go for the jugular, then they will also drop to $300 this year. Just don't see it happening unless sales during the year starts tracking behind last year sales. Technically, that's the only business marker that your product needs a price drop. They wouldn't just drop the price to outsell ms more than they already are. |
PS4 is in greater shape for a price drop since it already had cost saving revisions and GDDR5 has had significant drops (especially after the shortage has been taken care of) in prices since launch. Meanwhile Esram prices will remain stagnant and DDR3 prices continue to rise. DDR3 prices are rising so much that we have had rumors of future Xbox Ones using DDR4 (which will cost a lot more than the initial Xbox One units and you wouldn't get any performance gains as they would make sure they have the same performance as the current DDR3 for compatiblity reasons). I would say the PS4 is in much better position for a price cut.
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