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Machiavellian on 13 June 2017
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thismeintiel said:
Machiavellian said:

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.

Well your common sense was not proven so we will see.  My common sense says Sony keep the price right where it is and continue to outsell MS and make decent profit off the console because its smart business.  Cutting the price only to gain a little more sells at the cost of your margins is not helping the bottom line.  If any cuts will be done it will be the same holiday cuts we will probably see from all vendors.  MS probably will not cut the X1X price but they might pack in Halo or Gears with 4K assets etc.  You might get a 50 dollar cut to the Pro or a pack in game and same price but it will be the limited holiday price cut we see every year.  Even then, Sony is not pressured to do any price cuts and you prove my statement with your last line as MS decided to not cut the X1X price so the already 100 difference is well enough for the Pro to outsell the X1X Easily.