XB1 can't beat PS4 in a year just thanks holidays sales... ???

[Farsala]

Shadow1980 said:

Farsala said:

I hope I am vvrong because I believe consoles should be getting more pricecuts to boost the softvvare video game economy. But I do not think the PS4 vvill get a permanent pricecut this year. I think Sony has learned the value of bundling that has taken last gen and this gen by storm and vvill continue to add 'value' to the $400 pricetag. In the PS1 and PS2 gens bundling vvas not very important and so price cuts had to happen to continue boosting hardvvare and softvvare. But it vvasn't the most profitable. PS3 had pricecuts to stay competitive ala XB1.

I hope for 2 $100 pricecuts personally to match the vviis 2 pricecuts. And if that vvere to happen then 3 years and 5ish years for each.

As I mentioned in another thread, I think the PS4 will get a price cut this year, and it will likely be a $100 drop. The PS2 was even more dominant and selling even better than the PS4 has been (in the U.S. and Japan, at least), yet it already had its first price cut by this point in its life. No major console released in the past 25 years, except for the Wii, has gone more than two years without a price cut, and except for the the 360 every console that launched at $300 or more got a $100 drop for its first price cut. Also, sales are relatively flat from last year, and the only thing that will spur further growth in sales over a long period of time is price cuts. Neither games nor bundles will do much to spur growth over any appreciable time span. Price cuts have consistently demonstrated that they are by far the biggest grower of sales there is.

P.S.: Why do you always substitute your W's with two V's?

I hope so, but factors have changed. Including mass bundling, Sonys financials, Sonys history of pricecuts, lackluster softvvare.