Besides not wanting to lose more on each console for now, and not being able to renegotiate components purchase prices before Xmas, when demand is high and suppliers have the whip end, Sony, although selling less than MS, is anyway within its own predictions and now it would be too late to ramp up production and stockpile units for Xmas, so a price cut would risk to be wasted and produce lower revenues and shortages instead of higher sales.
Right now Sony can do little but just do its better to reach or better exceed 20million units sold by the first week of January 2009, but even if it will eventually grab 2nd place WW, and this should be possible after price cut and slim version release, it's becoming more and more difficult it will overtake MS in USA, there XB360' 2nd place is by now almost granted forever.

Think this was pretty obvious really. Winning in UK means you are winning in europe seeing as they sell almost as much as the rest of europe put together.
Here they can barely give the PS3's away. The next 4 weeks will be very bad for Sony. The lack of a price cut this holiday will hit them hard.

Hyruken said: Think this was pretty obvious really. Winning in UK means you are winning in europe seeing as they sell almost as much as the rest of europe put together. Here they can barely give the PS3's away. The next 4 weeks will be very bad for Sony. The lack of a price cut this holiday will hit them hard.

 

LoL dont post if you havent got a clue what the hell you posting about.

MS always are way full of it and exagerate, they always come up with delusional rants on how well they are doing and they are always proven to be false.

Pristine20 said: goddog said: Pristine20 said: Star Scream said: Well deserved, they got the price right. PS3 looks horribly overpriced in comparison. You realize that this may have to do with the euro falling 25% against the yen right? Sony has actually cut the price by 25% in EU but no one realizes it.     hah only cut the price to sony corporate not to the end user, and end user perception is what matters. Ms has had to absorb this too, and dropped the price, the euro has fallen vs the dollar too, and is expected to be worth as much as or less then the dollar by the new year, considering it was over twice the dollars value earlier this year, thats a major slide.   1 euro gets you 1.25 usd right now 1 euro gets you 119.01 yen right now 1 usd gets you 95.05 yen right now   Yep, to sony's corporate and sharehiolders and they also play a part in the decision whether a real price cut comes or not. Sony as a company is bleeding right now. Do you guys wish that the company collapse just to sell more ps3's? If anything, they'll be better off canning the ps3 lol.

Sony is not bleeding as a company as they made profit last quarter and in the year, they're just not as profitable as they once were and a lot of their divisions are bleeding money (Mainly games, music, laptops, phones). Howard Stringer has helped but there's a lot to be done to make Sony a powerhouse again.
Will Sony be able to cut the price next Spring? They can only hope to have 45nm Cell and RSX in place and that the dollar and Euro strenghthen and the yen weakens, otherwise 3rd place it is

NNN2004 said: Pristine20 said: NNN2004 said: first low LPB & Resistance 2 sales & now this .... lol poor sony .. i will sell my PS3 if u dont do anything sony U HEAR ME So you're selling your ps3 because the games didn't sell like you expected or because you didn't like the games? lol. So much for all about the games. can you propose what sony should do right now when the whole company is putrefying?    no its about the games & system .. the games are great  i own both LBP & resistance 2 but if  the games and the system didnt sell well then we will not see any other good games later.

 

lol, you know I thought he had you NNN2004, but that's actually a great retort. :P

so what happens next year when Sony drops the price?

ssj12 said: so what happens next year when Sony drops the price?

MSFT will wait for a few months and then drop the price too.

 

dolemit3 said: ssj12 said: so what happens next year when Sony drops the price? MSFT will wait for a few months and then drop the price too.

 

can they afford it?

Slow and steady wins the race ;)

ssj12 said: dolemit3 said: ssj12 said: so what happens next year when Sony drops the price? MSFT will wait for a few months and then drop the price too.     can they afford it?

 

Well, if you look at the balance sheets then they are in a better position to do so than Sony. Sony is going to get crushed this holiday season, not just from the PS3 but just about everything they sell.