PS4 Get's $50 Price Cut At Target

[UltimateGamer1982]

Wonktonodi said:

Cartmanbrah said:

Forgot about that one but if you're referring to the kinect-less SKU then that isn't a price cut. A price cut is the exact same item with a reduced price. Kinect was taken away so its obvious the price would go down. You are not getting the same item at a lower price. You are getting less for a lower price. 

I think he ment the ps3 and it's a similar case since the new model didn't have bc live the old ps3 models had.

As for the x one. From many consumers. The priced of the new model that wasn't available before was the equivalent of a price cut. They didn't have to pay as much for what they wanted. Microsoft just cutting the price, or Microsoft taking something out the consumer didn't want to reduce the price makes no difference to them. 

Another way of putting it is Microsoft reduced the minimum asking price to play on the Xbox one. yes there were less features, but reducing the price of entry is a big deal and doing it twice in a year was a big deal.

Exactly. Mostly everything from Microsoft this gen is reactionary to Sony. 

They saw they were getting raped in pre orders following e3 2013, so they reversed all those controversial policies.

Then when ps4 kept outselling them, they matched ps4's price. 

Then when that wasn't enough, they went below ps4's price. 

 

Putting that all together and it makes Microsoft look kinda desperate.