Seece said:
psrock said:
Seece said:
psrock said:
The 360 had a slim version plus a price drop of the older versions. They will release kinect later this year.
Sony : Price drop the PSP to $120, release a slimmer PSP with Mh3 BUNDLE.
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Yeah, Kinect, don't underestimate it.
You're also forgetting the 3DS is launching late 10/early 11. 360 doesn't have much thread from Sony/Nintendo coming up.
Also your point about PSP outselling the 360 every year, it's already behind this year, I can't see it pulling ahead. It's 6 years old, a long time for a handheld in this day and age, it's main rival is bringing out a new system and it's doing bad in the worlds strongest market, and pretty sbstandard in the other 2.
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For all the kill PSP talk in the internet :
For 2010
360 : 3.37 Million sold
PSP: 3.03 Million sold
Now, the PSP is having the worst year ever, selling no software, and Sony leaving it to die and yet it's out selling the 360 in two regions. Think what a price cut can do.
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The PSP needs more than a price cut, it'll do some damage in Japan, but it won't sustain in the west. Just look at the PS3, it's price cut hasn't exactly propelled it's sales sky high above pre slim sales lately.
Before you say it, I don't think a slim/redesign would be anywhere near enough for the 360, the 360's future relies on Kinect.
For the record though, I don't think PSP should be discontinued, I do think they need to bring the PSP2 out soon, the PSP isn't going to go much further, price cut and redesign (again you never answered my question, it's already had 3, what do you think yet another is going to do) will wear off very quickly.
You're trying to hard to compare the PSP and 360, but their situations are completely different, in terms of what regions they're excelling in, what they actually HAVE coming up, console vs handheld, new competitors (including they're own)
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RE: "The 360's future relies on KInect", I think everybody is just totally forgetting how overdue a 360 price cut is. It's sad really. Remember when the PS3 slim came out, it was also paired with $100 cut! 360 slim came with $0 cut and has still done pretty well.
It seems Kinect has totally screwed up microsoft's price drop schedule. If Kinect didn't exist I'm quite sure 360 would be at 159/249 or lower no later than this fall. As is, who knows. But the point is with a price drop on slim, 360 sales would be way higher, and very strong. Everything MS is doing needs to be viewed in light of the fact 360 is way overpriced right now.
I mean I dont know at what point MS managed to convince us all that 360 and PS3 are supposed to be the same price (for the same hard drive size), considering until recently PS3 came with free Blu Ray, free online, and free wi-fi while 360 had none of that (at least it's got wi-fi now). It's absurd if you think back to the beginning of the generation when it was 599 PS3, people would have thought if they were the same price PS3 would totally destroy 360. But here a few years later, they are the same price.
Basically I'm saying MS needs a price cut, if they do it will cause sales to increase a lot regardless of kinect, and one might be coming this fall.
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