No price drop? Does Microsoft think Sony is a joke?

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Gamerace said:
I figure Mircosoft wants to wait until probably August or Sept for a few reasons:
A) Don't think a cut will increase PS3 sales much as it still lacks killer apps
B) A price cut now would be forgotten about by the holiday season, but one done late in the year, coupled with GTAIV/Halo3 would give them tremendous momentum going into the holidays
C) They'll have the Falcon 65nm version out by then which is cheaper to produce

If Sony dropped the price in Europe, then MS would be forced to meet it or lose that region.

totally aggree...and i'd add:

1) Xbox 360 is selling bad right now: FACT

2) PS3 right now is selling less than X360: FACT

3) Xbox installed base is roughly 3 times PS3's: FACT

4) Sony needed a price drop, MS can wait at least till the holiday season: FACT

do you ( i mean Sony Fanboys, not the user Gamerace of course ) expect Ps3 starting to sell 200k console per week?...PS3 at best could gain a lead of 30-40k consoles per week (more than what a Sony fanboy could even hope) and this without considering that in september the Heavyweight (Halo 3) enter the Arena (again: remember i'm thinking like a fanboy)...ok, even in a scenario like this (worst case scenario) MS definitely can take 15 weeks and see what PS3 manages to do in the mean time before considering a price drop: right now there are still 6.5 millions more X360 than Ps3...it's a long way to reduce this and 15 weeks (till the last week of October) won't kill MS (FACT) and reducing price before holiday season is surely a better move than doing it during summer (again: FACT).

in other words: Sony, given the actual scenario, could't choose when to do the price drop and was forced to place it in the worst season of the year (18-20k consoles per week is really bad: you MUST do something)...MS can choose. period.