Earlier this year I had a feeling that Sony would cut the price of the PS3 before GTA4, however, with the resent events in the HD format war I have a hard time seeing this come to life. I feel strongly that MS will cut the prices to Arcade 250, Pro 299, and elite 399. If this happens I believ Sony will ride it out at their current price set-up. Sony has put a lot of big events into motion in the weeks leading upto GTA4's launch, which I think they are kind of trying to use in place as a price cut. They have the DS3 and GT5P both due two weeks ahead of the launch, and the PSStore will be getting an update in the first half of April. If that happens to include a Music and Video download service I believe that the combanation of these things will get enough word of mouth going to make Playstation fresh in thier head as they go to pick up a system and GTA4 on April 28th.
Now if Sony does happen to through a price cut in there I would be expecting to see something huge. I think if, they drop the price it will be to 299 for the 40GB, and 399 for the 80GB. Right now I think if I was in charge at Sony I would be in a difficult spot, because on one hand you have MGS4 coming in June which will spark some sales, and you could stand to get some good profits for a change. On the other hand you know the price has to drop sometime, and mabye it would be better to put the price in a more casual positionduring a casual time of year.
So here is the hypothetical situation. Say MS does there price drop of 30, 50, 50, and this is basically it from MS besides major advertising of the game towards 360. No say Sony 1) Launches the video/audio download section of the PSstore 2)Drop the price by 100, and 100. Will the momentum this creates be big enough in the long run to be benifical or will it still leave them to far behind Wii to make it worth while? Can Home make it out fast enough to ride the momentum, and then create its own?
I think their is enough stuff going on with the PS3 throught the year to keep the momentum up, and make it the must have this winter, but I also think Sony has a good chance of skrewing it up. If they can market well enough at a casual level, about Home, PSstore's media content, and Blu-ray 2.0 I think the agression would pay off.
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Kevyn B Grams
10/03/2010
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