gergroy on 19 February 2013
| binary solo said: My question is whether remodelling by itself has much effect? I don't think so. With PS3 the price cut was the big thing. I would argue that a remodel by itself would have done almost nothing for 360 after a short effect. What "relaunched" 360 was Kinect, which I hypothesise was a substantial number of people dropping Wii and picking up 360+Kinect 4GB bundles. The Kinect launch was effectively a price cut because Kinect bundles could be had for not that much more than straight 360 before Kinect's launch. So expensive but popular brand becomes cheaper. And cool new toy. These are the seeds of the revivial, not so much remodelling. |
I don't know, I think the remodel was incredibly necessary to the long term sales possibilities of the 360, it wasnt just kinect. The problem before the 360 remodel was that it was still dogged with hardware issues like the RROD and the incredibly loud fan. The remodel helped the 360 move past those issues as it was made as a more reliable hardware system. I think that had just as much of an effect as kinect did.
Of course, normally I would agree that remodels don't have that significant of an impact if they aren't coupled with a price decrease. The 360 is just a special case...
