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Kerotan on 13 March 2015
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Shadow1980 said:
Kerotan said:


Sony was run by Krazy ken back then. They want the ps4 to make billions.  A price cut might not happen soon if they keep dominating.  Imagine they held off to next year!  Personally I think the USA and UK gets a cut to combat halo 5. 


But only one system released since the 16-bit era went more than two years without a price cut, and that was the Wii. Most got a price cut within a year. Here's how long it took every major system to get a price cut after launch in the U.S.:

Saturn: 5 months
N64: 6 months
Xbox: 6 months
GC: 6 months
SNES: ~7 months (was reduced $20 by time the EB spring 1992 catalog was released)
XBO: 7 months (if you count the Kinect-less SKU as a price reduction) or 12 months (if you don't)
PS1: 8 months
PS3: 8 months
Wii U: 10 months
Dreamcast: 12 months
PS2: 19 months
360: 21 months
Genesis: ≤24 months (was reduced by time the SNES came out, possibly earlier)
Wii: 34 months

That's a lot of historical precendent there suggesting that in all likelihood we'll see a price cut for the PS4 some time this year. My pointing out the PS2 specifically shows that even dominating systems get price cuts sooner than most people would think they should. I imaging if VGC was around 13 years ago a lot of us would be saying the PS2 didn't need a price cut and that we won't see one unti 2003, and they'd have been proven wrong in May 2002 when the PS2's price was reduced by a third.


You're probably right.  I was just saying if the pace somehow stayed extremely high and they felt no need to cut it. Like if they can sell all they can produce at 399 they won't cut.  

 

If I had to bet,  id say that it will get a price cut for its second anniversary.  So 24 months.  Now that uncharted is gone I'd expect a 100$ cut in the USA to combat halo.  The rest of the world to get a less significant cut.