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Ronster316 on 16 September 2008

A company renouned for trying to steal other peoples thunder (sony) you know, mobile/cell phones, laptops ect and you have a problem with microsoft cutting prices to try to stifle the competition?........ Sony have been doing exactly the same thing since day one in all forms of electronic goods........ Thats what big money CORPORATIONS do..........

Lastly, its a well known fact that sony stopped EA from making games for the sega dreamcast........ If thats not suffocating the competition then i don't know what is........

What goes around comes around sony



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Fei-Hung on 16 September 2008

Bullet100000 hit the nail on the head. It is a successful strategy they used when launching windows back in their early years of set up.

They pushed Windows onto almost every Pc in a production line so the consumer would have no need to pay for it. Later, once all the users were accustomed to Windows and their packages, they started charging for add ons and having constant OP being released every so often.

The video game industry is huge and the fact that MS is losing out on the MPS Audio to Apple, Apple having taken nice chunks from their HW PC market, Google having dominated the Internet, MS is looking at new ways of making money.

They might be breaking even or make a little loss on the 360 with the price cuts, but just say they shift 80million 360 LTD due to their low price, that would mean they would have 80million more customers that are potential subscribers to XBL, purchasers of a HDD, purchasers of WiFi, other MS products and royalties from games!

This way, not only will they make up for what they may lose out on HW sales but they will surely make huge profits, not to forget have a much larger user base ready for the next Xbox.

Once the PS3 has manufacturing costs down, they too will have a price drop. Possibly next year since the PS2 offered a slim down cheaper version around the 3 year mark of its life cycle.

The gamble MS are taking is huge, but they pay off if it goes successful will be even bigger.



Dallinor on 16 September 2008
starcraft said:
MS recently shifted to a new hardware model that is substantially cheaper to produce.

RRod has all but disappeared. I haven't heard of a case on a recently produced (last 8-12 months) console in ages. In any case, Microsoft already budgeted for the repair;s of Rrod consoles two years ago.

Many third party exclusives exist because developers did not have dev kits in time (Tales of Vesperia, Star Ocean 4). Often, intended PS3 ports are canceled as they are not expected to sell well (Saint's Row 2).

Saints Row 1 was an intended port not Saints Row 2 (Which is arriving on the PS3 the same day as the 360 version).

 

 



 

dejelek on 16 September 2008

PS3 disk error, and broken firmware give so many problem too, funny thing on ps3forums & neogaf, now it is more frequent thread about ps3 dies than xbox360 dies.

and i think ps3 have broken promises than now becoming xbox360 advantage, BC (backward compatibility)



blackstar on 16 September 2008
epinefridis said:
blackstar said:

HELP me understand this, HELP me understand MS

the crazy price-cut in all three regions: imagine the amount of money they are going to lose on HW on all three models

Link? Proof? Evidence?

i've read it some where here and no one asked for a proof because they know except for starcraft who told me that they are now producing models that costs less to develope ,

the crazy RRoD: the problem is unfixable and anyone says "NO, THEY ARE FIXING IT" wake up! they have been in the market for more than 2 years and a half and it's still exist and they are losing MONEY because of RRoD

Link? Proof? Evidence? Numbers? Percentages?

proof for RRod?????

the crazy amount of 3ed part exclusive games : they have lots of that , companies are not doing this for free they are getting paid for that which also means HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY

help me understand when they are going to be proftible when the new xbox is out on 2011??

Who told that they are not already?

no one ,, i'm asking

what's the point of cutting prices and loses HUGE amount of money when u are sellling well and 5 million away from ur main competitor?

What's the point of presenting personal opinion based on evidence that come out straight of your ass, as a base for discussion? Maybe you are a little bit jealous hah? You know, doing the same thing with a half price machine or something.

no need for such insults

i don't have a ps3 nor a 360

it's not personal opinion

discuss -if u want :)-

 

 

 

 



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Skeeuk on 16 September 2008
starcraft said:
MS recently shifted to a new hardware model that is substantially cheaper to produce.

RRod has all but disappeared. I haven't heard of a case on a recently produced (last 8-12 months) console in ages. In any case, Microsoft already budgeted for the repair;s of Rrod consoles two years ago.

Many third party exclusives exist because developers did not have dev kits in time (Tales of Vesperia, Star Ocean 4). Often, intended PS3 ports are canceled as they are not expected to sell well (Saint's Row 2).

 

saints row 2 is still on track for ps3, have you got a news link for that. i know they canceled saints row 1 because they got dev kits late and couldnt put out a good game.



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Neos on 16 September 2008

perhaps you are forgetting the amount of money microsoft has.

they can do whatever the hell they want. heck, they could probably buy whole afrika with it ;)



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starcraft on 16 September 2008
Skeeuk said:
starcraft said:
MS recently shifted to a new hardware model that is substantially cheaper to produce.

RRod has all but disappeared. I haven't heard of a case on a recently produced (last 8-12 months) console in ages. In any case, Microsoft already budgeted for the repair;s of Rrod consoles two years ago.

Many third party exclusives exist because developers did not have dev kits in time (Tales of Vesperia, Star Ocean 4). Often, intended PS3 ports are canceled as they are not expected to sell well (Saint's Row 2).

saints row 2 is still on track for ps3, have you got a news link for that. i know they canceled saints row 1 because they got dev kits late and couldnt put out a good game.

Sorry, I meant saint's 1

 



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starcraft on 16 September 2008

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blackstar on 16 September 2008
Fei-Hung said:
Bullet100000 hit the nail on the head. It is a successful strategy they used when launching windows back in their early years of set up.

They pushed Windows onto almost every Pc in a production line so the consumer would have no need to pay for it. Later, once all the users were accustomed to Windows and their packages, they started charging for add ons and having constant OP being released every so often.

The video game industry is huge and the fact that MS is losing out on the MPS Audio to Apple, Apple having taken nice chunks from their HW PC market, Google having dominated the Internet, MS is looking at new ways of making money.

They might be breaking even or make a little loss on the 360 with the price cuts, but just say they shift 80million 360 LTD due to their low price, that would mean they would have 80million more customers that are potential subscribers to XBL, purchasers of a HDD, purchasers of WiFi, other MS products and royalties from games!

This way, not only will they make up for what they may lose out on HW sales but they will surely make huge profits, not to forget have a much larger user base ready for the next Xbox.

Once the PS3 has manufacturing costs down, they too will have a price drop. Possibly next year since the PS2 offered a slim down cheaper version around the 3 year mark of its life cycle.

The gamble MS are taking is huge, but they pay off if it goes successful will be even bigger.

this helped me understand,,

 but then , they need time right????

isn't 2011 too early for thier next console?