DonFerrari said:
zorg1000 said:
It's hard to post links on this phone, but those are the actual dates of their price cuts. It released the same month as Xbox so ur whole, "it price dropped much faster" is false. And what do u mean at the same time all the time? The only time they all received a price cut at the same time was May 2002 when PS2 got a price cut and the others responded. I'm also not sure what ur last sentence has to do with anything that I have said.
Why can't u just admit ur initial statement i quoted was wrong and GC was only $50 cheaper for the majority of its life cycle?
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The gap between the launch of ps2 and gc was big so they having the cut at the same time shows gc dropped faster even though being 100 (33%) cheaper. That didn't help it against ps2 and not even against the newcomer Xbox.
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The $100 PS2 price cut was an aggressive move initiated by Sony to stop the Gamecube and Xbox from gaining any momentum. It was even called an aggressive move in Sony's own press release.
Nintendo and MS had no choice but to follow suit with price cuts of their own. The PS2 had sold 28.68 Million worldwide as of March 31 2002.
The PS2 price cut was made on May 14th, 2002. The Gamecube price cut was made on May 21, 2002 - the Xbox price cut was made on May 15, 2002. Sony caused the deep price cuts early on in the life of the Gamecube and Xbox, not Nintendo or MS.
