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thismeintiel on 03 March 2014
g911turbo said:
thismeintiel said:
Hibern81 said:
... And for those talking about a Ps4 price cut, dream on.

Why would you say that?  PS4 is 100% going to get a price cut next year.  Probably by $50.  And if the One's pricecut this year actually does something, they may drop by $20-$30 this year.

Lol, why don't you just say that it will get a price cut in the next 5 years to be safe.  Of course it will get a price cut eventually, I think he just meant it won't get one sooner than later.  Besides, if PS4 continues to sell at the current pace, Sony is not cutting the price.

Well, considering I was the only one to specifically mention a PS4 pricecut, and was talking about 2015, his comment of "dream on" made no sense.



 

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Ssenkahdavic on 03 March 2014

They said kinect alone was 150, so how about buy and xbox one for 350 with a hidden kinect tax of 150.

None of this bundled crap.



 

  

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S.T.A.G.E. on 03 March 2014

Get rid of the Kinect.



HylianSwordsman on 03 March 2014

A $150 price cut would certainly work wonders, but I think that's a bit unreasonable to expect. A $100 cut with a game included would be enough. Maybe Kinect Sports.



coolguy on 03 March 2014

MS needs to get rid of the 100 dollar remote they call kincet.stop makeing kincet games and charge 399.
This would boost sales



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hieuth09 on 04 March 2014

So the price of Xbox One has to be lower than PS4 in order to compete ? MS wont accept it man :))



Killerbee23 on 04 March 2014

As previous posters have already stated they need to drop that Kinect like a bad habit. The xbox one is barely staying afloat over the Wii U so how in the world is it selling just fine?



BeElite on 04 March 2014
Cj2i3 said:
BeElite said:
Cj2i3 said:
Toss that Kinect in the garbage, cut that baby to 350 and watch Xbone's fly off the shelf.


add some exclusives and yep.

Ps4 already proved that you don't need exclusives to sell consoles, unless people really are buying the PS4 for Knack and Killzone.

 

I guess I could add change that marketing strategy to captivate gamers rather than captivating a demographic which doesn't buy consoles in the first place.


ps4 has the promise of exclusives, given sony history people trust it. 

X1 does not. 



Nate4Drake on 04 March 2014

Companies do business for gaining money, not for losing money or wasting money. You can't go with a price cut whenever you want, you need to do a profit on hardware sold. You can't cut the price by 100$ or 150$ because your competitor is squashing you.  MS biggest mistake, IMO, was to put Kinect2 into any box, and to keep the price "enough competitive", they opted for a weak hardware, and also harder to develop for because of cheap DD3 RAM and esram to compensate to the very low performance of that cheap DD3 RAM. So, if MS now decide to release a new SKU without Kinect2 and without some features, with a price reduction of 129$(example), what you are getting in the end ?  A stripped down Xbone with weak hardware. So, why you should buy an Xbone ?? When PS4 costs roughly the same and it's more powerful and multiplatform games will almost always perform/look better on PS4 !!!   Whatever you do, MS is in trouble.  IMO MS did a big mistake with this Xbone, they should have released TWO different SKUs, one with Kinect2 included, and the other without, but with a Far superior APU, better GPU and better RAM, so that they could sell the SKU without kinect2 at 399$-429$(with a more powerful APU than PS4)  !!!!!   MS did a big mistake, and now they will lose money to try to not be umiliated by Sony.  They should follow the 360 way(and they didn't).... now they are in trouble.



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Captain_Tom on 04 March 2014
ethomaz said:

The PS4 sales are strong... Xbone have a already know weaker hardware... so how much MS needs to make it competitive and at least sells on pair with PS4?

In my opinion MS needs at least cut the $150 of the console to make it sells close to PS4 numbers.

I believe too a $200 will start a domination in Xbone favor.

It is easy to see that... $350 is the minumin price that will make the consumer choose a weaker machine... $300 will be the obious choice even for me a PS fanbody.

What did you think guys?

I'm not saying MS will do that becuase the APU itself is already more expensive than PS4's APU and there is the Kinect... so I don't believe MS will cut that much but if they did then Xbone will be a hot product like PS4.

$300 ($200 pricecut) will be gamer changer... MS will close and change the gap to it favor in less than a year... after that just increase the gap.

I can be wrong too

Yup.  Been saying it for a while.  If they remove kinect, it will have to cost $100 less to truly get a chance at winning.  Otherwise it will be seen as the PS4 that is weaker for slightly less...