shikamaru317 said:
Ugh. No real explanation, just some PR fluff about how they listen to the community but don't always do what the community wants. I just can't understand jacking up the price in Brazil when they had a price advantage over PS5 there. They jacked the Series S price up from 2500 Brazilian Real to 3600 Brazilian Real, a massive increase from 2 months of working a minimum wage job to 3 months of working a minimum wage job. Sony already capitalized on the boneheaded move, slashing the PS5 price for Black Friday week to match the new price of Series S. The worst part is, there seems to be no real reason for the price hike beyond pure greed by Microsoft's bean counters, the Brazilian Real to USD exchange rate has been fairly stable, with the value of 1 Brazilian Real hovering around between 0.19-0.21 US cents nearly all year, tiny variations, a 3 penny range save for a single week where it was worth 0.18 US cents instead of 0.19-0.21 |
Its very simple, MS does not care about being competitive in the Brazilian market. Its going to dawn on a lot of you that what MS cares about and what you care about is not on the same page. You call it pure greed but remember that MS is selling at a loss. If they are not making that loss up in a market they will not continue to lose money. Without really knowing the P/L MS has in the market you really have no clue why they made this decision. MS just do not sell enough in that market to come to the conclusion that its greed without knowing the full scope of the issues present in that market.
