MS's Peter Moore on the PS3 price cut

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IllegalPaladin said:
I guess that makes sense, perhaps I did too much research before I bought it.

Speaking of jabs, did anybody catch what Phil said during the conference? I was something along the lines of "We don't have any of those size limits for our downloadable games".

I think if Microsoft had at least had a hard drive on the Core, their size limit and memory cards could have been avoided (well, memory cards would have just become a luxury to take things to another 360 at a friend's house).

Yeah, that's the key here. For informed consumers such as yourself, this is without question a price drop. For the uninformed (read: casual consumer) then they may not be sure what's happened here, other than that there is still a 499/599 SKU.

HOWEVER, I think Sony's decision to make the 599 version a "limited edition" was a very smart move. Even to the casual consumer, this screams "This is optional, you don't have to buy this version." Even if the 80GB model does take over eventually,  for now I think even uninformed consumers will understand that the 599 version doesn't contain essential components that the 499 version does not (that's always a nagging concern -- I'm sure you've purchased items that have multiple SKUs in markets you no little about, and wondered "why is this one cheaper?"