if Sony drops the price will Microsoft follow?

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mornelithe said:

PotentHerbs said:

I've read that Sony has profitted from the PS4 since launch, they can easily drop $100 and still make a profit. 

Yeah that's what I was thinking.  Not sure they've reached $100 price cut profitability though, haven't seen an isuppli teardown of the PS4 recently, but, it's been a bit since the PS4's launch so the manufacturing/assembling prices have to have come down quite a bit since launch.

Sony said (IIRC) that with the sale of a game with a PS4 (i.e. not bundled) they made a slight profit at the start of the generation. So PS4 by itself sold at a small loss. I think there was also information going around early in the generation that Xb one without Kinect had slightly lower production cost than PS4.

2-years in, and with an internal hardware refresh, it seems highly unlikely that PS4 is only being sold at a small unit profit or break even. But I wonder if that production and distribution cost has dropped below $350 yet. It probably has, but who knows other than Sony?