Shadow1980 said:
While it remains to be seen what effects, if any, a permanent cut to $250 for the Slim will have, there is plenty of reason to think that the PS4 may have passed its peak in the U.S. The most obvious piece of evidence is that it was selling better at $350 than the Slim has at $300. Now, back in September and October you could have argued that Pro preorders were eating into the PS4's sales, and it would have made sense, but then the holidays happened. Even with temporary price cuts to $250 for the Slim and the release of the Pro, during the holidays the PS4 was down over 28% YoY in November (which was a bad month overall; even the XBO was way down) and was roughly flat YoY in December. And now it's down YoY in January. The Slim and Pro have done nothing to boost sales in the U.S., the first time such notable hardware revisions to a major console have failed to do anything for sales. There's really only two conclusions: 1) The PS4 peaked in the U.S. in 2015, or 2) $300 wasn't cheap enough for the Slim. The first test for option #2 was this past holiday season, which wasn't encouraging. The next test will be this month with the 2-week price cut to $250. |
It would be a absolute disgrace if a 350-300 dollars sytem already peaked with such a small amount of big exclusives.
Especially when soo many great games are coming out this year+ a 200 ps4 and i bet a 350-300 pro.
I just can't see it already peaked.
Sony won't allow it.
