Kerotan
MS will likely have a big promotion for the releases of the order and Bloodborne. Something like an extra free game thrown in. They did it for lots of releases last year.

maybe/probably right,but what game exactly will draw interest? do they have anything new or semi-new for a while in terms of big impact exclusives,their current bundle already has 2 games,maybe s.o and forza thrown in with Acreed games for 349 might actually do it... thats quite a bit of value

oohh...yikes.

This will be intersting to see a week from now. I am sure Microsoft has a massive marketing push ready for this weekends football championship games. If they don't pass PS4 by next week I don't think anything is going to change for quite a while.

On Sony's side they have got to keep the pressure though. This TLOU bundle is a great move, and as has been said I think $450 bundles with The Order 1886, Bloodborne, and MLB The Show 2015 are major in pushing new console sales.

My biggest interest is what effect PlayStation Vue and Sling TV are going to have on sales. Almost everyone I have talked to has said they are seriously considering converting every room to XBO, PS4, Amazon Fire, Chromecast, or Roku once these cable alternates become available.

It is not surprising. These price changes work both ways. Products have an overall level of demand, and they can behave flatly or wildly depending on price fluctuations. The more X1 is able to sell on holidays, the less it's going to sell outside of them. Because if in one year there are (examples) potential 6M US X1 customers in the US vs 8M potential PS4 customers, the X1 can win some NPDs but will lose the rest and the overall battle. The brunt of the sales are allocated to a specific period. That's why if you want to have a truly objective view of things, the gap never became truly higher than 1M nor was it ever cut down by the X1. It was small at the end of 2013, and it grew to over 0.5M at the end of 2014. Now it remains to be seen what its progress will be at the end of 2015. I have no doubt it'll grow until the holidays, but we'll see how much demand will remain for the X1 in that holiday season, same for the PS4 in case there is a price change.

But X1 fans are still welcome here, after all it seems to be doing better than before when the price was back to 400. That should count for something. Sales should be enough to keep major american publishers more satisfied than they were last year. Plus, if thanks to this some of the monthly gaps are smaller, X1 has a chance at one or another NPD. For example, August. Last year the gap was only 30k thanks to Madden bundle. Until Dawn might not be enough to fight a 350 dollar Madden bundle, giving X1 a win. Though, of course, a summer price drop from Sony could turn that around.

if Tue PS4 for any reason sells better than the XB1 when being $50 more expensive; we can all just forget about Sony dropping the price till November or the next PSX event in December.

I also believe that when Sony does announce a price drop it will not be a $50 drop. it will be a $100 drop.

ps4 still kicking ass on the best sellers list

tells me

those that wanted an xb1 got one with the first 350 price drop aswell as when it was selling for 280-330 during the holidays boost now should be marginal

xb1 needs to be more than $50 to outsell the ps4

we could see a 300 price point for xb1 available soon

A price drop isn't going to make people go buy something they don't want, It can only motivate the ones who already want it to get it now rather than later. And that exactly what the price drop achieved for the XB1 during the holidays.

It might work differently when it comes to products that mainly target women cause they have a knack for going out and buying things they didn't really want just because they were on sale, but video game consoles are more dependent on the male demographic.

If ms go to 300 sony might match it later this year and that would be devastating. MS need to get as cheap as possible without going too low and awaking the dragon. the ps4 unlike smaug has no chink in their armour.

They have nothing marketable.  Sony have Bloodborne the order and marketing rights to battlefield hardline. 

How has Microsoft nothing major planned for this half of the year. Terrible planning and foresight.  

man the xbox one keeps falling