Amazon US November monthly bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion.

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GribbleGrunger said:

SWORDF1SH said:

fathinos said:
I wonder what Sony are preparing for BF. Microsoft is definitely going big and probably for the last time but Sony might choose to cut the costs since it really doesn't need to make a big effort to sell consoles.

If last year is anything to go by, they will do something like $300 console with 2 games. Stock will be limited and probably sell out very quickly.

And if I'm right about the PS4 actually being $300 then Sony can start bundling TLOUR in again (with one extra game) for $300. I think that's why they dropped the TLOUR bundle. It would have confused matters because they already had a bundle for $350. They want to perpetuate the idea that the $350 bundles come with a FREE game when in actual fact the bundle is $300 with a $50 game. I just feel so convinced of this.

I don't think you're right, in that I don't think we're going to see the base $300 retail price for PS4 until their slim redesign comes out late next year. But you are right in a sense that Sony can easily afford to sell at $300, which means they can do short term BF-like things and sell PS4's at $300 and even include retailer gift cards. Cyber monday will have these sorts of big deals. And I expect there will be retailer deals through December where you can get a $300 PS4 "while stocks last". This is probably the holiday where Sony wants to completely establish PS4's momentum with no possibility of Xb one coming back at it for the rest of the generation.

I think psychologically Xb 360 scared the pants of Sony and they never want to come close to that situation again. Which means being the market leader in the USA by a decent margin. Xb one winning in the USA may have been a situation to which Sony was resigned at the beginning of the generation, or just before it began, but once they got a lead I think they decided they could not let Xb one come back and take the lead. MS is far to big and far too dangerous to give them the opportunity to be the market leader. Because when they become the market leader they don't just beat everyone else, they destroy them with ruthless sociopathic focus.