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thismeintiel on 12 June 2017
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Machiavellian said:
thismeintiel said:

Except it's going to happen.  And Sony could probably cut the price of the Pro to $299 in Sept and break even.  Or sell for a small loss.  There's a reason they stuck with the same GPU, only doubled up and overclocked.  $349 this holiday season will still give them around $35-$50 profit, while making the price gap between it and the Scorpio seem even larger than it already is when compared to the graphical benefits you get from the Scorpio.

Where are you getting your info from.  I guess we will find out and see but thinking Sony is going to cut the Pro 100 bones sounds out of this world crazy.  I still have not heard any good reason WHY Sony would cut the price of the Pro 100 bones.  Hell, MS could sell the OneX for 399 if they wanted to and probably break even who knows.  Just because a company can do something does not mean its a smart move.  Also its not just graphical but performance as well.  I will be very interested to see if there are any price cuts.  If so then it will be just like the Xbox S temp cut for a month.

My info comes from common sense.  They are selling 1000's of the 1TB PS4 for $249 currently.  You think they are doing that at a loss?  Nope.  At worse, they are breaking even.  Making Pro for $50-$75 more per unit, when it has the same CPU and RAM, just 2 of the same GPUs instead of 1, is not a stretch.  Especially when they will have had a whole year to lower costs.  $299 is probably what they would have cut it to if the Scorpio had been $399.  But, MS wants to make more profit, now, not rebuild the Xbox brand, so they handed Sony a nice gift.  Now, Sony can price it at $349 this winter and still make profit.